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Organizers Core Skills Toolkit
AUTHOR: Mel King Institute, Rising Sun Consulting,…
YEAR: 2021
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This toolkit was designed to support the professional growth of community organizers and community engagement staff.
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The State of Organizing and Engagement Work in Massachusetts Community Development Corporations
AUTHOR: MACDC
YEAR: 2021
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MACDC itself has had a long-standing commitment to supporting community organizing within our members going back to the creation of the Ricanne Had
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Organizers Core Skills Training and Resource Catalog
AUTHOR: Mel King Institute, Rising Sun Consulting,…
YEAR: 2021
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This catalog of current community organizing trainings and resources is updated re
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Metropolitan Segregation: No Breakthrough in Sight
AUTHOR: John R. Logan (Brown University) and Brian J. Stults (…
YEAR: 2021
DESCRIPTION:
The 2020 Census offers new information on changes in residential segregation in metropolitan regions across the country as they continue to become
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Shifting the Narrative
AUTHOR: The Opportunity Agenda, Amplifier
YEAR: 2021
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Advocates have long understood the centrality of storytelling to building power, as well as winning both short term victories and long-term systemi
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HUD Historical and Archived Reports
AUTHOR: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development…
YEAR: 2020
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Historical and Archived Reports
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Crowded In and Priced Out: Why It’s so Hard to Find a Family-Sized Unit in Greater Boston
AUTHOR: MAPC Team: Tim Reardon, Director of Data Services…
YEAR: 2020
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Finding a home to rent or buy in Greater Boston is stressful. Prices are high, available units are scarce, and competition is stiff.
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Promoting Healthy Aging through Mobility and Transportation
AUTHOR: Massachusetts Healthy Aging Collaborative
YEAR: 2019
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People of all ages need access to transportation options to get to medical appointments and to acquire medication and nutritious food, but also to
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The Overlooked Anchors: Advancing a New Standard of Practice for Arts and Culture Organizations to Create Equitable Opportunity in America’s Cities
AUTHOR: The Kresge Foundation & ICIC
YEAR: 2019
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Based on a rigorous assessment of anchor strategies and 125 arts and culture organizations in 57 U.S.
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Changing Faces of Greater Boston
AUTHOR: Boston Indicators, The Boston Foundation, UMASS Boston…
YEAR: 2019
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This report tells the fascinating story of a great region’s evolving racial and ethnic diversity.
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Building Resiliency through Green Infrastructure
AUTHOR: Johanna Bozuwa
YEAR: 2019
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How investments in the green infrastructure needed for climate resiliency can be leveraged to build community wealth with worker cooperatives and s
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Building Communities of Promise and Possibility: State and Local Blueprints for Comprehensive Neighborhood Stabilization
AUTHOR: MACDC & MassINC
YEAR: 2019
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In recent years, much attention has been trained on Greater Boston’s tight housing market and the increasingly severe difficulty residents have fin
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The Arts Factor
AUTHOR: Arts Boston
YEAR: 2019
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New research on the ways that the region’s nonprofit arts and cultural sector transforms lives, builds stronger communities, and strengthens the lo
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How are Massachusetts Community-Based Organizations Responding to the Health Care Sector's Entry into Social Determinants of Health?
AUTHOR: Elena Byhoff, MD, MSc Tufts Medical School Lauren A.…
YEAR: 2018
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This report aims to address this knowledge gap by summarizing the findings from a qualitative study that sought to better understand how CBOs are r
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Food at Home: Affordable Housing as a Platform to Overcome Nutritional Challenges
AUTHOR: Enterprise Community Partners
YEAR: 2018
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This report provides a series of actionable recommendations that demonstrate how affordable housing and housing
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Proven Local Strategies For Expanding the Supply of Affordable Homes and Addressing Cost Challenges
AUTHOR: Ahmad Abu-Khalaf , Enterprise Community Partners, Inc…
YEAR: 2018
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This white paper highlights proven local strategies for expanding the supply of affordable homes and addressing
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Strategies for Investing in Opportunity
AUTHOR: HIA Group
YEAR: 2018
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"Strategies for investing in Opportunity; An Assessment of the Assisted Housing Portfolio, Neighborhood Quality
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Climate Justice for the City of Boston: Visioning Policies and Processes
AUTHOR: Office of Boston City Council
YEAR: 2018
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This report by Graduate Fellow Christina Schlegel (Office of City Council President Michelle Wu) highlights the
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Redefining Sanctuary
AUTHOR: The Opportunity Agenda
YEAR: 2018
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This report is an analysis of public attitudes and media coverage of sanctuary jurisdictions and related immigra
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Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network
AUTHOR: Caroline Levine
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
Forms offers a powerful new answer to one of the most pressing problems facing literary, critical, and cultural studies today—how to connect
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Measuring Health Outcomes: Success Measures Evaluation Tools for Community Development and Health
AUTHOR: Jessica Mulcahy, Success Measures
YEAR: 2017
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This new toolkit, developed by Success Measures at NeighborWorks America, offers more than 65 data collection to
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Why disability rights are central to social justice work—and what we’re doing about it
AUTHOR: The Ford Foundation
YEAR: 2017
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This report takes a closer look at the importance of disability rights in the work being done by the Ford Foundation.
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Combating the Suburbanization of Poverty
AUTHOR: Congress for the New Urbanism
YEAR: 2017
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The report, Combating the Suburbanization of Poverty, is full of information about poverty trends and remedies in suburban areas of King County, Wa
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The SPARCC Initiative: Fostering Racial Equity, Health, and Climate Resilience in the Built Environment
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
YEAR: 2017
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This article explains why we, as funders, came to the table to develop and support the Strong, Prosperous, and Resilient Communities Challenge (SPA
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