Archives
Electronic Funds Transfer:
For the millions of low-income "unbanked" people, EFT may unlock the doors to financial services. But it may also mean windfall profits for banks...
Community Tool Box for Welfare Reform:
In a struggling, isolated Portland neighborhood, a group of neighborhood women have organized a Neighborhood Pride Team (NPT) over the past few years. They...
Housing Advocate, Minnesota State Representative Karen Clark
Mention the word "housing" in the Minnesota state legislature, and you're likely to be referred to the office of Representative Karen Clark. Clark, a...
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Redefining Community Development
Comprehensive community initiatives borrow heavily from various community development models but at the same time are unique in their structure, strategies, and ambitious goals.
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Selected Initiatives
Neighborhood Partners Initiative
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation's Neighborhood Partners Initiative supports community building and neighborhood stabilization projects in one- to five-block neighborhoods in...
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Resources and Contacts
Publications
There seems to be an unavoidable tension between community groups and foundations in CCIs, according to a study of six case CCIs, included in...
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Getting the Most from Independent Evaluations
Most of the CCIs now underway in cities and regions around the country have been launched as foundation-sponsored demonstrations; as such they usually include...
Comprehensive Community Initiatives: Executive Director Profiles
Emanuel Freeman
Emanuel Freeman's organizing career began in the mid-1960s, soon after he graduated from high school in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood. In working to make...
Never Give Up on a Good Idea
In the 1960s, a small group of well-meaning government officials had a great notion: empower the poor to guide their own economic recovery by...
Oakland Campaign Puts Kids First
Low-income youth and youth of color are often first to feel the effects of shrinking local human service budgets. In Oakland, California – across...
Hiring a Development Director
As small organizations grow, they grapple with the need to raise more and more money. Inevitably, they must consider hiring someone to take charge...
Guides for Tenants, Landlords, and Neighbors
Every Landlord's Legal Guide by Marcia Stewart, Janet Portman, and Ralph Warner. $29.95
Every Tenant's Legal Guide by Janet Portman and Marcia Stewart. $24.95
Neighbor Law...
Financial Modernization – The Newest Threat To Neighborhood Vitality
Does banking legislation have the potential to either devastate or revitalize working class and minority neighborhoods?
Well, consider the following scenario. A hard-working single mother...
NHI Activities
Woody Widrow, NHI board member and former Shelterforce editor, was the recipient of one of the New Jersey Tenants Organization (NJTO) Ronald Atlas Tenant...