UVM/Burlington Community Outreach Partnership Center
205B Morrill Hall — Burlington, Vermont 05405 |(802) 656-0095
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(1) Sustainable Communities/Comprehensive Community Development
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community |
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) is committed to building the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop the health, economic equity, and social justice of communities. We intend to advance the research, practice, and knowledge of community development, community building, comprehensive community prevention, and collaboration through an integrated approach to providing research and evaluation support, technical assistance, and training. |
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The Community Tool Box |
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Here you will find practical guidance for improving community health and development. There over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 community topics. We invite you to check it out. |
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The Centre for Community Enterprise |
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Community economic development (CED) puts local people in charge of their ways of life and work. Communities - neighbourhoods, towns, First Nations, and other people pressed to the margins by the modern economy - use CED to restore their hope, pride, and power. But it takes skill: community organizing, research, and planning; business and organizational development; finance; and networking. And the clincher is to ensure that development is sustainable both ecologically and commercially. At the Centre for Community Enterprise, we make it our business to keep tabs on community economic development know-how, so we can all learn from the best. If you're after inspiring, practical, and provocative resources to assist your community, this is the place. |
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Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development |
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Web site established by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote and support sustainable development, offering publications and case studies. "Sustainable development," according to DOE, "is a strategy by which communities seek economic development approaches that also benefit the local environment and quality of life. It has become an important guide to many communities that have discovered that traditional approaches to planning and development are creating, rather than solving, societal and environmental problems. Where traditional approaches can lead to congestion, sprawl, pollution, and resource overconsumption, sustainable development offers real, lasting solutions that will strengthen our future. Sustainable development provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies. It can help us create healthy communities that can sustain our generation, as well as those that follow us." |
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The Citistates Group |
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The Citistates Group is a network of journalists, speakers and advisers committed to competitive, equitable and sustainable 21st century metropolitan regions. To aid regions, the Group offers quick, one-stop access top its constellation of leading American thinkers -- and experienced actors -- in forging stronger, more coherent regions. |
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Community Indicators Project on Web |
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Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives |
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Council of State Community Development Agencies |
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COSCDA members are the executive branch agencies that have primary responsibility for providing community development, housing, or local economic development assistance to localities and communities. |
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Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities |
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The Empowerment Zone and Enterprise Community (EZ/EC) Initiative is a key element of President Clinton's job creation strategy for America. Its purpose is to create jobs and business opportunities in the most economically distressed areas of inner cities and the rural heartland. The EZ/EC effort provides tax incentives and performance grants and loans to create jobs and expand business opportunities. It also focuses on activities to support people looking for work: job training, child care, and transportation. |
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation |
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation was created to assist people and groups from many different sectors. The mission of the IHCF is to facilitate linkages among people, issues and resources in order to support the development of Healthy Cities initiatives. The IHCF will both link people, organizations, and networks currently working to advance Healthy City goals and provide linkages with others dealing with significant and related areas of work. All aspects of health planning, promotion and prevention activities are needed for a balanced health system and will be included. All issues of community organization and governance will be involved. And finally, special interests, often regarded as separate areas of concern will be integrated into the ongoing work and goals of the IHCF. |
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The E. F. Schumacher Society |
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The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society. |
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JUST FOOD |
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The mission of JUST FOOD, a NYC-based non-profit organization, is to develop a just and sustainable food system in the NYC region by fostering understanding, communication & partnership among diverse groups concerned with FARMING, HUNGER & SUSTAINABILITY issues. By uniting people with seemingly divergent agendas, we are building a stronger, better-informed network of activists & residents who can find long-term solutions for the many challenges that face NYC & our region. |
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National Association of Development Organizations |
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The National Association of Development Organizations (NADO) provides training, information and representation for regional development organizations in small metropolitan and rural America. The association, a public interest group founded in 1967, is the largest and leading advocate for a regional approach to community, economic and rural development and provides a network for its members to share ideas and innovations. |
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The National Community Building Network |
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The National Community Building Network (NCBN) is an alliance of individuals and organizations that work to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive community building strategies. |
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The New Rules Project |
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Why NEW RULES? Because the old ones don't work any longer. They undermine local economies, subvert democracy, weaken our sense of community, and ignore the costs of our decisions on the next generation. The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics. The rules call for: decisions made by those who will feel the impact of those decisions; communities accepting responsibility for the welfare of their members and for the next generation; households and communities possessing or owning sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth. |
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Rural & Small Town Programme |
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The Rural and Small Town Programme (RSTP) prepares people and organizations to adapt to change and to act on opportunities for developing sustainable rural communities and small towns. The Programme links research and action by generating and sharing new knowledge, developing self-help tools, and providing information and educational services which lead to innovative approaches and solutions. |
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The Simple Society |
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The goal of The Simple Society is to create an innovative, more humane society that empowers everyone to achieve their full potential, that actually solves society's problems while using simpler institutional and social structures, and that lives by these six principles: 1) Everyone is personally responsible for their own behavior. 2) Everyone has the minimum personal obligation to become and remain self-sustaining. 3) Personalized help must be reliably available when it's needed. 4) We all benefit from motivating and empowering others to give us their best. 5) We all benefit from encouraging a positive creative environment. 6) In all human relationships, seek the greatest degree of fairness, not advantage. The Society will do whatever is necessary to smoothly integrate the model into everyday life. |
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The Sustainable Communities Network |
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The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability in both urban and rural areas. We welcome your comments and suggestions to make it as useful as possible |
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Sustainable Development Gateway |
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The American Public Human Services Association |
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The association’s mission is to develop, promote, and implement public human service policies that improve the health and well-being of families, children, and adults. APHSA is also an umbrella for several component groups. First among these are the National Council of State Human Service Administrators and the National Council of Local Human Service Administrators. |
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Community Policing Consortium |
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The Community Policing Consortium is a partnership of five of the leading police organizations in the US: International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) These five organizations play a principal role in the development of community policing research, training and technical assistance, and each is firmly committed to the advancement of this policing philosophy. |
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation |
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The International Healthy Cities Foundation was created to assist people and groups from many different sectors. The mission of the IHCF is to facilitate linkages among people, issues and resources in order to support the development of Healthy Cities initiatives. The IHCF will both link people, organizations, and networks currently working to advance Healthy City goals and provide linkages with others dealing with significant and related areas of work. All aspects of health planning, promotion and prevention activities are needed for a balanced health system and will be included. All issues of community organization and governance will be involved. And finally, special interests, often regarded as separate areas of concern will be integrated into the ongoing work and goals of the IHCF. |
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The Finance Project |
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The Finance Project is a national initiative to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public- and private-sector financing for education, other children's services, and community building and development. With leadership and support from a consortium of private foundations, The Finance Project was established in 1994 as an independent, nonprofit organization. It undertakes an ambitious array of policy research and development activities, policy maker forums and public education activities, as well as support and technical assistance activities. |
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The Food Research and Action Center |
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The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and undernutrition in the United States. Founded in 1970 as a public interest law firm, FRAC is a nonprofit and nonpartisan research and public policy center that serves as the hub of an anti-hunger network of thousands of individuals and agencies across the country. |
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JUST FOOD |
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The mission of JUST FOOD, a NYC-based non-profit organization, is to develop a just and sustainable food system in the NYC region by fostering understanding, communication & partnership among diverse groups concerned with FARMING, HUNGER & SUSTAINABILITY issues. By uniting people with seemingly divergent agendas, we are building a stronger, better-informed network of activists & residents who can find long-term solutions for the many challenges that face NYC & our region. |
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National Association of Community Action Agencies |
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It is the mission of the National Association of Community Action Agencies to be a |
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The National Partnership for Women & Families |
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The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. Founded in 1971 as the Women's Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership has grown from a small group of volunteers into one of the nation's most powerful and effective advocates for women and families. Working with business, government, unions, nonprofit organizations, and the media, the National Partnership is a voice for fairness, a source for solutions, and a force for change. |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership (NWMAP) is a collaboration of organizers, advocates, service providers and researchers from across the United States concerned with the well-being of low-income people. NWMAP's activities are threefold: monitoring, advocacy, and organizing. NWMAP supports the monitoring of welfare at the community level to inform both grass roots and national advocacy efforts and to build the capacity of local communities to advocate on their own behalf. |
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Partnership Against Violence Network |
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PAVNET Online is a "virtual library" of information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies. It is a "one-stop," searchable, information resource to help reduce redundancy in information management and provide clear and comprehensive access to information for States and local communities. |
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Policy Research Associates, Inc. |
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PRA's special expertise lies in areas such as the relationship between the mental health and criminal justice systems; the housing, treatment and service needs of homeless people with serious mental illness; issues challenging at-risk children, youth and their families; and the causes and impacts of violence. |
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Public/Private Ventures |
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Many of the highest-risk youth in poor communities are not reached by traditional youth programs, but are served by churches and other faith-based institutions that are both well-established and seriously concerned about the welfare of these vulnerable youth and their families. This report, the first in a series from P/PV's National Faith-Based Initiative for High-Risk Youth, provides an initial overview of strategies employed by faith-based institutions in 11 cities, including lessons learned about the distinct contributions of faith-based institutions to the work of civil society, and the challenges of building partnerships between faith-based groups and other institutions--law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies, foundations and philanthropy, local government and community organizations. |
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The Welfare Law Center |
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The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development. |
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The Welfare Policy Center |
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The Welfare Policy Center (WPC) conducts research and provides technical assistance on welfare reform. It is a resource for policy makers, program administrators, the press, and many others who want to know what can be learned from cutting-edge welfare reforms, and what it takes to make reforms effective. WPC works with governments and service providers to help redesign and implement effective new systems of aid intended to help families achieve self-sufficiency and build better lives. |
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World Hunger Year |
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World Hunger Year (WHY) attacks root causes of hunger and poverty by promoting effective and innovative community-based solutions which create self-reliance, economic justice, and food security. |
(3) Economic Development/Job Creation/WorkforceDevelopment/Commercial Development
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The Centre for Community Enterprise |
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Community economic development (CED) puts local people in charge of their ways of life and work. Communities - neighbourhoods, towns, First Nations, and other people pressed to the margins by the modern economy - use CED to restore their hope, pride, and power. But it takes skill: community organizing, research, and planning; business and organizational development; finance; and networking. And the clincher is to ensure that development is sustainable both ecologically and commercially. At the Centre for Community Enterprise, we make it our business to keep tabs on community economic development know-how, so we can all learn from the best. If you're after inspiring, practical, and provocative resources to assist your community, this is the place. |
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The Corporation for Enterprise Development |
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The Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED) fosters widely shared and sustainable economic well-being. CFED promotes asset-building and economic opportunity strategies, primarily in low-income and distressed communities, that bring together community practice, public policy, and private markets in new and effective ways. |
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Economic Security Project |
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Based in San Francisco, the Economic Security Project promotes federal action to guarantee economic security so that all people can more fully realize their human potential within a caring and democratic society. We engage in public education and advocacy on these issues, both locally and on the Net, and provide low-cost computer rental and training services in our Internet Learning Center. |
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The E. F. Schumacher Society |
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The E. F. Schumacher Society, named after the author of Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, is an educational non-profit organization founded in 1980. Our programs demonstrate that both social and environmental sustainability can be achieved by applying the values of human-scale communities and respect for the natural environment to economic issues. Building on a rich tradition often known as decentralism, the Society initiates practical measures that lead to community revitalization and further the transition toward an economically and ecologically sustainable society. |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Its mission as a school is to study and teach about land policy, including land economics and land taxation. A major portion of the Institute's support comes from the Lincoln Foundation, established in 1947 by Cleveland industrialist John C. Lincoln. He drew inspiration from the ideas of Henry George, the nineteenth-century American political economist, social philosopher and author of the book, Progress and Poverty. The Institute's goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the multidisciplinary forces that influence them. The Institute explores these issues through three focused program areas: program on the taxation of land and buildings; program on land markets; and program on land as common property. |
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Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation |
| MDRC is a nonprofit, nonpartisan social policy research organization. We are dedicated to learning what works to improve the well-being of low-income people. Through our research and the active communication of our findings, we seek to enhance the effectiveness of public policies and programs. |
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Public/Private Ventures |
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Many of the highest-risk youth in poor communities are not reached by traditional youth programs, but are served by churches and other faith-based institutions that are both well-established and seriously concerned about the welfare of these vulnerable youth and their families. This report, the first in a series from P/PV's National Faith-Based Initiative for High-Risk Youth, provides an initial overview of strategies employed by faith-based institutions in 11 cities, including lessons learned about the distinct contributions of faith-based institutions to the work of civil society, and the challenges of building partnerships between faith-based groups and other institutions--law enforcement and juvenile justice agencies, foundations and philanthropy, local government and community organizations. |
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Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development |
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The Pratt Institute Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED) has been in service to the community for over thirty years. It was established in 1963 to create a partnership between Pratt Institute's Department of City and Regional Planning and local organizations that were struggling to address issues of urban deterioration and poverty. PICCED grew out of the Institute's belief that an integral part of its mission as an urban university was to provide community-based organizations in low-income neighborhoods throughout New York City with access to the technical resources of its faculty, staff, and students. |
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The Urban Institute |
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The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices. |
(4) Social Lending/Community Reinvestment/Community Development Financial Institutions
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The Finance Project |
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The Finance Project is a national initiative to improve the effectiveness, efficiency, and equity of public- and private-sector financing for education, other children's services, and community building and development. With leadership and support from a consortium of private foundations, The Finance Project was established in 1994 as an independent, nonprofit organization. It undertakes an ambitious array of policy research and development activities, policy maker forums and public education activities, as well as support and technical assistance activities. |
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National Community Reinvestment Coalition |
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NCRC was formed in 1990 by 16 national, regional, and local organizations to develop and harness the collective energies of community reinvestment organizations from across the country so as to increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities. |
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National Community Capital Association |
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The National Community Capital Association is a national membership organization of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). National Community Capital's Member CDFIs provide capital, technical assistance, and development services to support the revitalization of economically-disadvantaged urban, rural, and reservation-based communities across the United States. National Community Capital also represents more than 200 Associates-organizations and individuals that support NCCA’s mission. |
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National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions |
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Community development credit unions are established by people in low-income areas as a way to pool their savings and make loans to each other. Economic self-help and community reinvestment are the heart of the CDCU mission: to help low-income families and communities control their own financial destinies. |
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The National Neighborhood Coalition |
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Founded in 1979, the National Neighborhood Coalition (NNC) is an information and educational clearinghouse on national public policies and federal programs that affect inner-city neighborhoods and their low- and moderate-income residents. NNC focuses primarily on place-based issues, such as low-income housing, community-based development, community reinvestment banking, citizen participation, crime, and community organizing. |
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Woodstock Institute |
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Woodstock Institute, a Chicago nonprofit incorporated in 1973, works locally and nationally to promote community reinvestment and economic development in lower-income and minority communities. We work with community organizations, financial institutions, foundations, government agencies, and others to promote our goals. |
(5)Energy Efficiency/Alternative Technology
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American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy |
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The American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing energy efficiency as a means of promoting both economic prosperity and environmental protection. ACEEE fulfills its mission by: conducting in-depth technical and policy assessments; advising governments and utilities; working collaboratively with businesses and other organizations; publishing books, conference proceedings, and reports; organizing conferences and workshops; informing consumers. |
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Center of Excellence for Sustainable Development |
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Web site established by the U.S. Department of Energy to promote and support sustainable development, offering publications and case studies. "Sustainable development," according to DOE, "is a strategy by which communities seek economic development approaches that also benefit the local environment and quality of life. It has become an important guide to many communities that have discovered that traditional approaches to planning and development are creating, rather than solving, societal and environmental problems. Where traditional approaches can lead to congestion, sprawl, pollution, and resource overconsumption, sustainable development offers real, lasting solutions that will strengthen our future. Sustainable development provides a framework under which communities can use resources efficiently, create efficient infrastructures, protect and enhance quality of life, and create new businesses to strengthen their economies. It can help us create healthy communities that can sustain our generation, as well as those that follow us." |
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The Center for Neighborhood Technology |
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Center for Neighborhood Technology is a non-profit organization that helps build prosperous, sustainable communities by linking economic and community development with ecological improvement. The Center's work in public policy, market development and community planning is grounded in the Chicago region and national in scope. |
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Low Income Networking and Communications Project |
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The LINC Project is the electronic crossroads where low income organizations confronting the shredding of our social safety net can connect and have their organizing efforts represented. LINC also helps low income organizations integrate technology into their campaigns. |
(6)Housing Development/Housing Policy/Homelessness
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The Enterprise Foundation |
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The Enterprise Foundation is dedicated to bringing lasting improvements to distressed communities. Enterprise is a national, nonprofit housing and community development organization. It was launched in 1982 by Jim and Patty Rouse. Since then, Enterprise and its related organizations have raised and leveraged $3.4 billion and helped to create more than 107,000 homes affordable to low-income Americans and to place more than 31,000 people in jobs. The Foundation’s mission is to see that all low-income people in the United States have the opportunity for fit and affordable housing and to move up and out of poverty into the mainstream of American life. In order to achieve that mission, we strive to: build a national community development movement; demonstrate what is possible in low-income communities; and communicate and advocate for what works in community development. |
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Fannie Mae Foundation |
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The Fannie Mae Foundation uses a combination of grantmaking, national awards, scholarly research, and publications to promote innovations in affordable housing. The Foundation is the publisher of Housing Policy Debate. |
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The Joint Center for Housing Studies, established in 1959, is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. JCHS analyzes the ways in which housing policy and practices are shaped by economic and demographic trends and provides leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector with knowledge and tools for formulating effective policies and strategies. Among its many publications, JCHS annually publishes The State of the Nation’s Housing (which can be downloaded free-of-charge from this site). |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Its mission as a school is to study and teach about land policy, including land economics and land taxation. A major portion of the Institute's support comes from the Lincoln Foundation, established in 1947 by Cleveland industrialist John C. Lincoln. He drew inspiration from the ideas of Henry George, the nineteenth-century American political economist, social philosopher and author of the book, Progress and Poverty. The Institute's goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the multidisciplinary forces that influence them. The Institute explores these issues through three focused program areas: program on the taxation of land and buildings; program on land markets; and program on land as common property. |
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
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LISC provides grants, loans and equity investments to CDCs for neighborhood redevelopment. When LISC begins a new program, National LISC matches locally-raised funds and gives that much more to the community for renovation. The CDC then designates the funds to a variety of projects that will best suit the neighborhood, and the renovation begins. |
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Rural |
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Our mission is to build the capacity of resident led rural community development corporations (CDCs), increase their production and impact, demonstrate the value of investing in and through rural CDCs and make the resource and policy environment more supportive of rural CDCs and their work. |
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McAuley Institute |
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McAuley Institute is a national, nonprofit housing organization founded by the Sisters of Mercy. McAuley provides state-of-the-art technical assistance and financial resources to grassroots organizations that work to expand housing and economic opportunities for low-income women and their families. |
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National Housing Institute |
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The National Housing Institute is a 24-year old nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. NHI examines the key issues affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners and their supporters. NHI is the publisher of Shelterforce, the only independent, nonacademic "trade" publication for community builders. Now in its 25th year of continuous publication, Shelterforce is a leader in presenting innovations in the field of community development to practitioners, policymakers, and the public. |
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The National Law Center |
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The National Law Center, established in 1989, serves as the legal arm of the national movement to end homelessness in America. During the past year, over two million men, women, and children, or nearly one percent of the US population, were homeless. The Law Center works for long-term, constructive solutions to homelessness. In the past decade, the Law Center's efforts have resulted in: increased access to educational development programs for homeless children; increased funding for the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and other vital programs providing opportunities to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty; compliance with McKinney Act provisions by state administrators and federal agencies; conversion of closed military bases into shelters, job training, childcare and food program sites; advocacy and promotion of the Earned Income Credit helping homeless people move off the streets into housing and jobs. |
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National Low Income Housing Coalition/Low Income Housing Information Service |
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Established in 1974, the National Low Income Housing Coalition/LIHIS is the only national organization dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis. The NLIHC is committed to educating, organizing, and advocating to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone. NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions. Through forums, network building, timely and informative publications, and its Web presence, the Coalition continues to sustain a national network dedicated to affordable housing and healthy communities at the state and national levels. |
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The National Neighborhood Coalition |
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Founded in 1979, the National Neighborhood Coalition (NNC) is an information and educational clearinghouse on national public policies and federal programs that affect inner-city neighborhoods and their low- and moderate-income residents. NNC focuses primarily on place-based issues, such as low-income housing, community-based development, community reinvestment banking, citizen participation, crime, and community organizing. |
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NeighborWorks |
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Welcome to the NeighborWorks® network web site. This site is a function of the neighborhood revitalization and educational services offered by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Neighborhood Housing Services of America and a national network of public and private partnerships, the NeighborWorks® network. Resources found here provide information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the country. |
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Preserve/Net |
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A network of preservation groups from all over the country. It contains links, education opportunities and feedback requests regarding different preservations efforts in the United States. |
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U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) |
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Web site for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), containing information about federal programs, publications, and best practices for "Homes and Communities." |
(7)Social Justice/Anti Poverty/Civil Rights/Women’s Rights
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The Advocacy Institute |
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The Advocacy Institute makes a difference around the world by strengthening leadership and movements for political, social, and economic justice. Working with our partners to help make democratic institutions accountable, our work links us with a global community of grassroots activists and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders tackling critical human rights issues -- such as public health, gender equity, peace, ending poverty, sustainable development, and preserving the environment. The Institute’s work includes: advocacy leadership development, movement building, strategy development and analysis, advocacy skills building, facilitating alliance building, strategic counseling, and networking of advocates from all over the world. |
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The Alliance for Justice |
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The Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates. |
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Center for Community Change |
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CCC is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low-income communities. Its staff attempts to provide low-income people and local organizations with information and tools to improve their communities and to change policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. |
| The Equal Justice Network |
| The Equal Justice Network is an on-line meeting place, information source, and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts to provide civil legal assistance to low-income people. |
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The Institute on Race & Poverty |
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The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP), established in 1993 by john a. powell, is a strategic research center located at the University of Minnesota Law School. It is one of few national organizations that directly address the underlying causes of the problems created at the intersection of racial injustice and poverty. In the relatively short time since its inception, IRP has gained a national reputation for pro-active work through leading-edge thinking, relevant research, coalition building, public policy influence, and effective consultation and technical assistance |
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The Institute for Research on Poverty |
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The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan. The Institute was established in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, the organization given responsibility for reducing poverty in America. In the years since then, the Institute's multidisciplinary affiliates have formulated and tested basic theories of poverty and inequality, developed and evaluated social policy alternatives, and analyzed trends in poverty and economic well-being. |
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McAuley Institute |
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McAuley Institute is a national, nonprofit housing organization founded by the Sisters of Mercy. McAuley provides state-of-the-art technical assistance and financial resources to grassroots organizations that work to expand housing and economic opportunities for low-income women and their families. |
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National Association of Community Action Agencies |
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It is the mission of the National Association of Community Action Agencies to be a |
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The National Center on Poverty Law |
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The National Center on Poverty Law promotes equal justice through policy, advocacy, and legal resources. Our work is unique in that our agenda derives from what we learn from our low-income clients. Our services include legislative and administrative advocacy, impact litigation, and information dissemination. Our legal resources include publications, the most extensive poverty law library in the country, and the Poverty Law Research Center (accessible through this Web site). Our work is designed not only for clients but for legal services attorneys, pro bono attorneys, social service providers, social policy administrators, policy makers, and others committed to improving the lives of persons in poverty. |
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The National Council of La Raza |
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The National Council of La Raza (NCLR) is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, tax-exempt organization established in 1968 to reduce poverty and discrimination, and improve life opportunities, for Hispanic Americans. |
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The National Lawyers Guild/Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice |
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The National Lawyers Guild/Maurice and Jane Sugar Law Center for Economic and Social Justice is a national, non-profit public interest law center founded in 1991 upon the principle that economic and civil rights are inseparable; that one group of rights cannot truly exist in the absence of the other. Our work focuses on four major areas, all commonly informed by a concern for economic justice and the rights of the economically disenfranchised. |
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The National Partnership for Women & Families |
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The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that uses public education and advocacy to promote fairness in the workplace, quality health care, and policies that help women and men meet the dual demands of work and family. Founded in 1971 as the Women's Legal Defense Fund, the National Partnership has grown from a small group of volunteers into one of the nation's most powerful and effective advocates for women and families. Working with business, government, unions, nonprofit organizations, and the media, the National Partnership is a voice for fairness, a source for solutions, and a force for change. |
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National Urban League |
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The mission of the National Urban League is to assist African Americans in the achievement of social and economic equality. The Board of Trustees of the National Urban League and all of its affiliates reflect a diverse body of community, government, and corporate leaders. The League implements its mission through advocacy, bridge building, program services and research. |
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The Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research |
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The Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research supports academic research that examines what it means to be poor and live in America. JCPR concentrates on the causes and consequences of poverty in America and the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing poverty. Our goal is to advance what is known about the economic, social and behavioral factors that cause poverty, and to establish the actual effects of interventions designed to alleviate poverty. The Center's research agenda focuses on: changing labor markets and the causes of inequality in the current labor market; family functioning and the well-being of children; the impact of concentrated urban poverty; and the effects in these domains - and others - of changing policy and new programs. |
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Social Justice Connections |
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Helping people do powerful social justice work rooted in history. |
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The Welfare Law Center |
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The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development. |
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The Welfare Policy Center |
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The Welfare Policy Center (WPC) conducts research and provides technical assistance on welfare reform. It is a resource for policy makers, program administrators, the press, and many others who want to know what can be learned from cutting-edge welfare reforms, and what it takes to make reforms effective. WPC works with governments and service providers to help redesign and implement effective new systems of aid intended to help families achieve self-sufficiency and build better lives. |
(8)Civic Engagement/Social Capital/Leadership/Community Organizing/
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The Advocacy Institute |
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The Advocacy Institute makes a difference around the world by strengthening leadership and movements for political, social, and economic justice. Working with our partners to help make democratic institutions accountable, our work links us with a global community of grassroots activists and non-governmental organization (NGO) leaders tackling critical human rights issues -- such as public health, gender equity, peace, ending poverty, sustainable development, and preserving the environment. The Institute’s work includes: advocacy leadership development, movement building, strategy development and analysis, advocacy skills building, facilitating alliance building, strategic counseling, and networking of advocates from all over the world. |
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The Alliance for Justice |
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The Alliance for Justice is a national association of environmental, civil rights, mental health, women's, children's and consumer advocacy organizations. Since its inception in 1979, the Alliance has worked to advance the cause of justice for all Americans, strengthen the public interest community's ability to influence public policy, and foster the next generation of advocates. |
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The Alliance for National Renewal |
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The Alliance for National Renewal (ANR) is a coalition of over 200 national and local organizations dedicated to the principles of community renewal. Our diverse group of Partners range from the Study Circles Resource Center in Pomfret, Connecticut -- where a small staff has facilitated issue-based discussions in more than 70 communities -- to the National 4-H Council and the 33 million member American Association of Retired Persons. |
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community |
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The Association for the Study and Development of Community (ASDC) is committed to building the capacity of organizations and institutions to develop the health, economic equity, and social justice of communities. We intend to advance the research, practice, and knowledge of community development, community building, comprehensive community prevention, and collaboration through an integrated approach to providing research and evaluation support, technical assistance, and training. |
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The Carter Center |
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Every day in countries all over the world, people live under difficult, life-threatening circumstances caused by war, disease, famine, and poverty. The non-profit Carter Center strives to relieve this suffering by advancing peace and health in neighborhoods and nations around the globe. The Center, in partnership with Emory University, is guided by a fundamental commitment to human rights, wages peace by bringing warring parties to the negotiating table, monitoring elections, safeguarding human rights, and building strong democracies through economic development. It sows the seeds of peace in other ways--by fighting disease, increasing crop production, and promoting preventive health care in the United States and abroad. The goal is to help create a world where every man, woman, and child has the opportunity to enjoy good health and live in peace. |
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Center for Community Change |
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CCC is committed to reducing poverty and rebuilding low-income communities. Its staff attempts to provide low-income people and local organizations with information and tools to improve their communities and to change policies and institutions that adversely affect their lives. |
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Center for Living Democracy |
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The Center’s mission is "to accelerate the emergence of Living Democracy, the broad awakening the essential role of regular citizens in solving America’s toughest problems." |
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The CivicSource Mission |
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Serve people involved in grassroots organizing and community leadership by: Providing relevant information resources & Sharing strategies for using the Internet as an organizing tool. |
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The Civic Engagement Project |
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The Civic Engagement Project is grounded in three principles: * All citizens can contribute ideas, energy and action. * Proposals for improving a community are far more likely to be accepted if most citizens have a role in shaping them. * The most effective way to capitalize on citizens' energy is to gather together representatives, each of whom accurately represents a segment of the community. |
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Civic Practices Network |
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Born of the movement for a "new citizenship" and "civic revitalization," CPN is a collaborative and nonpartisan project dedicated to bringing practical tools for public problem solving into community and institutional settings across America. |
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The Community Tool Box |
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Here you will find practical guidance for improving community health and development. There over 3,000 downloadable pages of specific, skill-building information on over 150 community topics. We invite you to check it out. |
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HandsNet |
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HandsNet empowers organizations to integrate effective online communications strategies to strengthen their programs and policies for children, families and people in need. |
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Institute for the Study of Civic Values |
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ISVC works to apply America’s historic civic values to contemporary issues and problems, to develop both theory and practical strategies aimed at building community, and to promote civic literacy through conferences, workshops, and seminars. |
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National Association for Community Leadership |
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The mission of the National Association for Community Leadership (COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP) is to strengthen and transform communities by enhancing the capacity of inclusive, community leadership development efforts. Through training seminars, annual leadership conferences, collaborations and partnerships, and educational publications, COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP seeks to inspire and encourage community leadership programs across the country and to help them address issues of vital importance to their respective communities. |
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The National Commission on Civic Renewal |
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The Commission has been formed in response to a number of troubling trends in our civic life. During the past generation, the level of trust in government, in large institutions, and in our fellow citizens has fallen sharply. Basic civility has eroded, along with many kinds of civic participation. The content of our popular culture deeply troubles many of our citizens. Many Americans believe that the influence of religion in our society is lower than it once was and ought to be. The publication of Robert Putnam's now-famous essay "Bowling Alone" has helped to crystallize fears that America's distinctive source of social strength -- our network of voluntary associations -- is weakening and has sparked an important scholarly debate. |
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National Network for Collaboration |
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Our purpose is to expand the knowledge base and skill level of Cooperative Extension System Educators, agency and organizational partners, youth, and citizens by establishing a network that creates environments that foster collaboration and leads to citizen problem solving to improve the lives of children, youth and families. |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership (NWMAP) is a collaboration of organizers, advocates, service providers and researchers from across the United States concerned with the well-being of low-income people. NWMAP's activities are threefold: monitoring, advocacy, and organizing. NWMAP supports the monitoring of welfare at the community level to inform both grass roots and national advocacy efforts and to build the capacity of local communities to advocate on their own behalf. |
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Organizing Collaborative |
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People Escaping Poverty Project |
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PEPP is a Non-Profit Organization located in the Red River Valley of Eastern North Dakota and West Central Minnesota. PEPP is organizing people with low income to impact policies that affect our lives. Through organizing, we hope to be able to gain enough power to make the system work for us rather than against us. |
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The Program for Community Problem Solving |
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The Program for Community Problem Solving, a division of the National Civic League, is dedicated to helping community leaders build a collaborative civic culture that "gets things done". Since 1988, PCPS has provided a range of assistance to communities and those who work with them, including civic and neighborhood organizations, local, state, and federal government department and agencies, nonprofits, and foundations. PCPS offers a fully integrated array of services, from "hands-on" skills such as facilitation, training, coaching and lectures, to longer-term support such as designing multi-stakeholder collaboratives, community driven decision-making processes, and analytical research. |
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The Simple Society |
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The goal of The Simple Society is to create an innovative, more humane society that empowers everyone to achieve their full potential, that actually solves society's problems while using simpler institutional and social structures, and that lives by these six principles: 1) Everyone is personally responsible for their own behavior. 2) Everyone has the minimum personal obligation to become and remain self-sustaining. 3) Personalized help must be reliably available when it's needed. 4) We all benefit from motivating and empowering others to give us their best. 5) We all benefit from encouraging a positive creative environment. 6) In all human relationships, seek the greatest degree of fairness, not advantage. The Society will do whatever is necessary to smoothly integrate the model into everyday life. |
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The Community Psychology Network |
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The Community Psychology Network site is full of information including links and information regarding discussion lists, professional membership societies, graduate schools, community psychology course materials, funding sources, position announcements, community psychology books and suggested reading material, and various other miscellaneous resources relevant to the field. If you can't find what you are looking for, just search for it with our search engine! |
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The Community Psychology Education Connection Clearinghouse |
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The Community Psychology Education Connection Clearinghouse is a resource for instructors of courses in community psychology and related fields, whether teaching a course for the first time or revising your existing course. We maintain copies of course syllabi and other materials, as well as a reading list for instructors, for both undergraduate and graduate courses. We keep our materials current by asking instructors who receive our materials to submit their own materials once developed or revised, so that these can be made available to others. |
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The Radical Psychology Network |
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The Radical Psychology Network seeks like-minded psychologists and others to help create a society better able to meet human needs and bring about social justice. We want to change society's unacceptable status quo and bring about a better world. And we want to change the status quo of psychology, too. We challenge psychology's traditional focus on minor reform, because enhancing human welfare demands fundamental social change instead. Moreover, psychology itself has too often oppressed people rather than liberated them. |
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The Society for Community Research and Action |
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The Society for Community Research and Action (SCRA), Division 27 of the American Psychological Association, serves many different disciplines that focus on community research and action. Our members have found that, regardless of the professional work they do, the knowledge and professional relationships they gain in the SCRA have been invaluable and invigorating. Membership provides new ideas and strategies for research and action that benefit people and improve institutions and communities. The Society for Community Research and Action was founded on the idea that social systems and environmental influences are important foci for enhancing wellness via preventive research and interventions. |
(10) National CD Intermediaries/National CD Networks/ National CD "Think Tanks"
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The Aspen Institute |
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The Aspen Institute is a global forum that convenes leaders from diverse disciplines to address critical issues that confront societies, organizations, and individuals. Utilizing the rigorous discipline of informed dialogue and inquiry, the Institute's seminar and policy programs enhance the participants' ability to think clearly about such issues, mindful of the primacy of the moral perspective and the importance of differing viewpoints. |
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The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy |
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The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy seeks to shape a new generation of urban policies that will help build strong neighborhoods, cities, and metropolitan regions. In partnership with academics, private and public sector leaders, and locally-elected officials, the Center will inform the national debate on the impact of government policies, private sector actions, and national trends on cities and their metropolitan areas. By connecting expert knowledge and practical experience to the deliberations of state and federal policymakers, the Center aims to help develop integrated approaches and practical solutions to the challenges confronting these communities. |
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The Building Better Communities Network |
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The Building Better Communities Network (the "Network") is a product of the Campaign for New Community (CNC) and its November 1998 National Dialogue, "Collaborating for Successful Siting of Housing and Service Programs." |
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities |
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Founded in 1981, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has emerged over the past two decades as one of the leading organizations in the country working on fiscal policy issues and issues affecting low- and moderate-income families and individuals. The Center specializes in research and analysis oriented toward policy decisions that policymakers face at both federal and state levels. The Center examines data and research findings and produces analyses designed to be accessible to public officials, other non-profit organizations, and the media. |
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Center for Law and Social Policy |
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CLASP is a national non-profit organization with expertise in both law and policy affecting the poor. Through education, policy research and advocacy, CLASP seeks to improve the economic security of low-income families with children and secure access for low-income persons to our civil justice system. |
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The Center for Policy Alternatives |
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The Center for Policy Alternatives (CPA) engages a new generation of leaders across the states to envision and realize progressive solutions for America's future. Our Goals: find and promote progressive ideas that work; identify progressive leaders; create, develop and nurture alliances; connect & empower people across the fifty states for: secure and healthy families; thriving, energized communities; sustainable development to preserve resources; fair and flourishing economy; inclusive and participatory democracy |
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The Center for Poverty Solutions |
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The Center for Poverty Solutions, formed in 1998 by a merger of the Maryland Food Committee and Action for the Homeless, is a nonprofit, charitable organization dedicated to eliminating the root causes of poverty through public policy, education, research, direct service programs and community mobilization. |
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Community Development Society |
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The international Community Development Society (CDS), founded in 1969, is a professional association for community development practitioners and citizen leaders around the world. CDS members represent a variety of fields: education, health care, social services, government, utilities, economic development practitioners, citizen groups, and more. |
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Community and Rural Development Institute |
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Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute works to enhance life quality and social and personal well-being for the people of New York State. CaRDI links professionals and elected officials who share a concern for community development and policymaking, especially in rural communities. We bring together Cornell University departments and programs, Cornell Cooperative Extension Associations, local governments and community organizations to cultivate creative collaborations that bridge traditional institutional boundaries. |
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Council of State Community Development Agencies |
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COSCDA members are the executive branch agencies that have primary responsibility for providing community development, housing, or local economic development assistance to localities and communities. |
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The Enterprise Foundation |
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The Enterprise Foundation is dedicated to bringing lasting improvements to distressed communities. Enterprise is a national, nonprofit housing and community development organization. It was launched in 1982 by Jim and Patty Rouse. Since then, Enterprise and its related organizations have raised and leveraged $3.4 billion and helped to create more than 107,000 homes affordable to low-income Americans and to place more than 31,000 people in jobs. The Foundation’s mission is to see that all low-income people in the United States have the opportunity for fit and affordable housing and to move up and out of poverty into the mainstream of American life. In order to achieve that mission, we strive to: build a national community development movement; demonstrate what is possible in low-income communities; and communicate and advocate for what works in community development. |
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| The Equal Justice Network is an on-line meeting place, information source, and connection mechanism for lawyers and other advocates involved in efforts to provide civil legal assistance to low-income people. |
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Fannie Mae Foundation |
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The Fannie Mae Foundation uses a combination of grantmaking, national awards, scholarly research, and publications to promote innovations in affordable housing. The Foundation is the publisher of Housing Policy Debate. |
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The Institute on Race & Poverty |
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The Institute on Race & Poverty (IRP), established in 1993 by john a. powell, is a strategic research center located at the University of Minnesota Law School. It is one of few national organizations that directly address the underlying causes of the problems created at the intersection of racial injustice and poverty. In the relatively short time since its inception, IRP has gained a national reputation for pro-active work through leading-edge thinking, relevant research, coalition building, public policy influence, and effective consultation and technical assistance |
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The Institute for Research on Poverty |
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The Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) is a national, university-based center for research into the causes and consequences of poverty and social inequality in the United States. It is nonprofit and nonpartisan. The Institute was established in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison by the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity, the organization given responsibility for reducing poverty in America. In the years since then, the Institute's multidisciplinary affiliates have formulated and tested basic theories of poverty and inequality, developed and evaluated social policy alternatives, and analyzed trends in poverty and economic well-being. |
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The Joint Center for Housing Studies, established in 1959, is a collaborative unit affiliated with the Harvard Design School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. JCHS analyzes the ways in which housing policy and practices are shaped by economic and demographic trends and provides leaders in government, business, and the non-profit sector with knowledge and tools for formulating effective policies and strategies. Among its many publications, JCHS annually publishes The State of the Nation’s Housing (which can be downloaded free-of-charge from this site). |
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The Laboratory for Community and Economic Development |
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The Laboratory for Community and Economic Development (LCED) supports community and economic development efforts of local people, their governments and representatives. The Laboratory provides information and educational programs, and conducts research on economic and social issues that are relevant to communities and community leaders. |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy |
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The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit and tax-exempt educational institution established in 1974. Its mission as a school is to study and teach about land policy, including land economics and land taxation. A major portion of the Institute's support comes from the Lincoln Foundation, established in 1947 by Cleveland industrialist John C. Lincoln. He drew inspiration from the ideas of Henry George, the nineteenth-century American political economist, social philosopher and author of the book, Progress and Poverty. The Institute's goals are to integrate the theory and practice of land use and taxation and to understand the multidisciplinary forces that influence them. The Institute explores these issues through three focused program areas: program on the taxation of land and buildings; program on land markets; and program on land as common property. |
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation |
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LISC provides grants, loans and equity investments to CDCs for neighborhood redevelopment. When LISC begins a new program, National LISC matches locally-raised funds and gives that much more to the community for renovation. The CDC then designates the funds to a variety of projects that will best suit the neighborhood, and the renovation begins. |
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Local Initiatives Support Corporation: Rural |
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Our mission is to build the capacity of resident led rural community development corporations (CDCs), increase their production and impact, demonstrate the value of investing in and through rural CDCs and make the resource and policy environment more supportive of rural CDCs and their work. |
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The National Community Building Network |
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The National Community Building Network (NCBN) is an alliance of individuals and organizations that work to reduce poverty and create social and economic opportunity through comprehensive community building strategies. |
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National Community Capital Association |
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The National Community Capital Association is a national membership organization of community development financial institutions (CDFIs). National Community Capital's Member CDFIs provide capital, technical assistance, and development services to support the revitalization of economically-disadvantaged urban, rural, and reservation-based communities across the United States. National Community Capital also represents more than 200 Associates-organizations and individuals that support NCCA’s mission. |
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The National Center for the Revitalization of Central Cities |
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The National Center was established by Congress in 1990 at the University of New Orleans in its College of Urban and Public Affairs. Over the past several years, the National Center has directed its resources to answer the question: How can we maintain our urban areas as engines of economic growth and prosperity? Providing answers to this question will assist the leglislative and executive branches of government in formulating a national policy for revitalizing central cities. The National Center is a consortium of academic institutions that conducts basic and applied research on the problems plaguing our nation's central cities. We further analyze and evaluate Advances in Urban Revitalization, the unique policies, programs and strategies that address problems such as managing growth, and public investment in central city neighborhoods and their human resources. |
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National Housing Institute |
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The National Housing Institute is a 24-year old nonprofit organization that examines the issues causing the crisis in housing and community in America. NHI examines the key issues affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners and their supporters. NHI is the publisher of Shelterforce, the only independent, nonacademic "trade" publication for community builders. Now in its 25th year of continuous publication, Shelterforce is a leader in presenting innovations in the field of community development to practitioners, policymakers, and the public. |
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National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions |
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Community development credit unions are established by people in low-income areas as a way to pool their savings and make loans to each other. Economic self-help and community reinvestment are the heart of the CDCU mission: to help low-income families and communities control their own financial destinies. |
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The National Law Center |
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The National Law Center, established in 1989, serves as the legal arm of the national movement to end homelessness in America. During the past year, over two million men, women, and children, or nearly one percent of the US population, were homeless. The Law Center works for long-term, constructive solutions to homelessness. In the past decade, the Law Center's efforts have resulted in: increased access to educational development programs for homeless children; increased funding for the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act and other vital programs providing opportunities to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty; compliance with McKinney Act provisions by state administrators and federal agencies; conversion of closed military bases into shelters, job training, childcare and food program sites; advocacy and promotion of the Earned Income Credit helping homeless people move off the streets into housing and jobs. |
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National Community Reinvestment Coalition |
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NCRC was formed in 1990 by 16 national, regional, and local organizations to develop and harness the collective energies of community reinvestment organizations from across the country so as to increase the flow of private capital into traditionally underserved communities. |
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National Low Income Housing Coalition/Low Income Housing Information Service |
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Established in 1974, the National Low Income Housing Coalition/LIHIS is the only national organization dedicated solely to ending America's affordable housing crisis. The NLIHC is committed to educating, organizing, and advocating to ensure decent, affordable housing within healthy neighborhoods for everyone. NLIHC provides up-to-date information, formulates policy, and educates the public on housing needs and the strategies for solutions. Through forums, network building, timely and informative publications, and its Web presence, the Coalition continues to sustain a national network dedicated to affordable housing and healthy communities at the state and national levels. |
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The National Neighborhood Coalition |
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Founded in 1979, the National Neighborhood Coalition (NNC) is an information and educational clearinghouse on national public policies and federal programs that affect inner-city neighborhoods and their low- and moderate-income residents. NNC focuses primarily on place-based issues, such as low-income housing, community-based development, community reinvestment banking, citizen participation, crime, and community organizing. |
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National Network for Collaboration |
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Our purpose is to expand the knowledge base and skill level of Cooperative Extension System Educators, agency and organizational partners, youth, and citizens by establishing a network that creates environments that foster collaboration and leads to citizen problem solving to improve the lives of children, youth and families. |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership |
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The National Welfare Monitoring & Advocacy Partnership (NWMAP) is a collaboration of organizers, advocates, service providers and researchers from across the United States concerned with the well-being of low-income people. NWMAP's activities are threefold: monitoring, advocacy, and organizing. NWMAP supports the monitoring of welfare at the community level to inform both grass roots and national advocacy efforts and to build the capacity of local communities to advocate on their own behalf. |
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NeighborWorks |
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Welcome to the NeighborWorks® network web site. This site is a function of the neighborhood revitalization and educational services offered by Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation, Neighborhood Housing Services of America and a national network of public and private partnerships, the NeighborWorks® network. Resources found here provide information relating to a host of community-revitalization efforts from across the country. |
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The Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research |
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The Northwestern University / University of Chicago Joint Center for Poverty Research supports academic research that examines what it means to be poor and live in America. JCPR concentrates on the causes and consequences of poverty in America and the effectiveness of policies aimed at reducing poverty. Our goal is to advance what is known about the economic, social and behavioral factors that cause poverty, and to establish the actual effects of interventions designed to alleviate poverty. The Center's research agenda focuses on: changing labor markets and the causes of inequality in the current labor market; family functioning and the well-being of children; the impact of concentrated urban poverty; and the effects in these domains - and others - of changing policy and new programs. |
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Organizing Collaborative |
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The Sustainable Communities Network |
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The Sustainable Communities Network is for those who want to help make their communities more livable. Here a broad range of issues are addressed and resources are provided to help make this happen. This web site is being developed to increase the visibility of what has worked for other communities, and to promote a lively exchange of information to help create community sustainability in both urban and rural areas. We welcome your comments and suggestions to make it as useful as possible |
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The Urban Institute |
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The Urban Institute is a nonprofit policy research organization established in Washington, D.C., in 1968. The Institute's goals are to sharpen thinking about society's problems and efforts to solve them, improve government decisions and their implementation, and increase citizens' awareness about important public choices. |
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Urban Land Institute |
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The mission of the Urban Land Institute is to provide leadership in the responsible use of land to enhance the total environment. ULI’s strategic direction is to extend its industry leadership to: bring together the people able to influence the outcome of important issues related to land use and the built environment; communicate who we are and what we–our members and our Institute–have learned about land use to increase ULI’s influence on land use policy and practice; and continue to provide relevant and current information about land use and real estate development to all our members and stakeholders. |
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The Welfare Law Center |
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The Welfare Law Center works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support -- public funding provided on the basis of need -- is available whenever and to the extent necessary to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development. |
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The Welfare Policy Center |
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The Welfare Policy Center (WPC) conducts research and provides technical assistan |