When dealing with improvements, organizations seek to find a break-even point as early as possible in order to maximize ROI.
Patterson is on the board of an Eight Mile civic-improvement organization.
But I also think Medicare can be a force for change.' " He added, "I tried to reconceptualize it as an improvement organization".
According to Paul R. Levy, president of the Center City District, a nonprofit business improvement organization, the concept was discussed as far back as the 1970s to remedy the problem of obsolete commercial buildings on Broad Street south of City Hall.
An "improvement organization" of whites (who probably claimed to speak for "the community") tried to keep out blacks, but landlords were too eager to rent rooms to the highest bidders of any race.
This sprawling city has experienced large population losses in the last four decades, but central Philadelphia has been gaining residents in recent years, said Paul R. Levy, executive director of the Center City District, a business improvement organization.
Partnering with a local business-improvement organization, Google announced that it would be providing free outdoor wi-fi to an area extending from the West Side Highway to Eighth Avenue, which incorporates part of the meatpacking district, the Fulton Houses, and much of the gallery district.
"I always thought she had the capacity to be a real star, and the South Bronx — and the Bronx as a whole — needs a star, someone who makes it a little bigger," said Dart Westphal, president of the Mosholu Preservation Corporation, a neighborhood improvement organization active in the north Bronx.
The multifaceted implementation plans were carried out in conjunction with each state's quality improvement organization.
In Central Illinois, a local employer and a quality improvement organization partnered to publically report physician colonoscopy quality.
