Location: Cambridge College (17 Monsignor O’Brien Highway, Cambridge, MA) MAP and Parking Information
Instructor: Mat Thall (Community Development Consultant)
Application Deadline: February 6, 2012

This four-session workshop is designed to introduce new senior managers and executives at CDCs with limited real estate development experience to the broad range of real estate development activities of a CDC. Topics covered include the development process, major community development and real estate concepts, an overview of CDC staff and other professionals involved in various stages of development, and the organizational issues and challenges that the executive may confront in overseeing an effective and successful development agenda. The focus of this course is not ‘how to be a developer,’ but rather on how to provide leadership, oversight and problem-solving support to a real estate development team so that real estate development furthers the CDC’s mission.

Instructor Biography:
Mathew Thall is presently a housing and community development consultant. From 1991 to 2006  he served as  Senior Program Director, for the Greater Boston Program of the  Local Initiatives Support Corporation  (LISC). Previously he served for a decade as the Executive Director of the Fenway CDC in Boston.  Prior to that  he held planning, policy and research positions  with the Cambridge Housing Authority, the court-appointed master in the Perez vs. Boson Housing Authority case and the Laboratory for  Psychosocial Studies at Boston College.  He began his career in housing and community development as a Housing Management Specialist at the Newark Area Office of HUD.  Thall holds a Masters degree in City Planning from MIT and a B.A. from Columbia University.  He is currently a Board member of Citizens Housing and Planning Assoc. and the Fensgate Cooperative.  Past board memberships include AIDS Housing Corporation, Association for Resident Control of Housing, and the Peter Medoff Dudley Youth Scholarship Fund and Historic Boston Inc.

Session Dates and Approximate Times:
March 9 – 9:30am-4:30pm
March 28 – 9:30am-1:00pm
April 13 – 9:30am-3:30pm
May 4 – 9:30am-4:30pm

Application Requirements:
-Resume or C.V., submitted to melkinginstitute@macdc.org.
-Completed online application, available here.

Registration Information:
MACDC Member Organizations: $200.00
Non-MACDC Member Organizations: $400.00

For more information, please contact Julie at melkinginstitute@macdc.org.