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One-third of Mass. residents struggle with hunger, new report finds
AUTHOR: Boston Globe
YEAR: 2023
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The Greater Boston Food Bank report shows that in 2022, 1 in 3 adults in Massachusetts had limited or uncertain access to adequate food, while 20%
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Equitable Pathways to Small Business Recovery
AUTHOR: LISC and Next City
YEAR: 2022
DESCRIPTION:
Using this framework, the playbook describes actions that can be taken around
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Improving Food and Nutrition Security During COVID-19, the Economic Recovery, and Beyond
AUTHOR: Bipartisan Policy Center
YEAR: 2021
DESCRIPTION:
The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Food and Nutrition Security Task Force makes nine high-level policy recommendations to improve food and nutrition se
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Bridges to Career Opportunities
AUTHOR: LISC
YEAR: 2021
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Bridges to Career Opportunities (Bridges) is a LISC program that helps chronically unemployed and underemployed adults train for, land, and advance
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Impact in Place: Emerging Sources of Community Investment Capital and Strategies to Direct it at Scale
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
YEAR: 2021
DESCRIPTION:
The past year brought lightning-fast change to the community investment landscape.
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We Can Thrive Together: Visioning Economic Justice for All - Art & Discussion Guide
AUTHOR: The Opportunity Agenda and Amplifier
YEAR: 2021
DESCRIPTION:
We believe that ending poverty is within our reach, and that we have both the power and responsibility to do so.
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The Color of the Capital Gap
AUTHOR: Boston Indicators
YEAR: 2021
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In The Color of the Capital Gap, produced by Boston Indicators, the Economic Inclusion Strategy team at the Boston Foundation and in partnership wi
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Rural Small Business Need Local Solutions to Survive
AUTHOR: Hanna Love and Mike Powe
YEAR: 2020
DESCRIPTION:
The COVID-19 small business crisis is prolonged and uneven, inflicting a disproportionate toll on microbusinesse
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Small Business Lending in Massachusetts 2008-2017
AUTHOR: Massachusetts Community & Banking Council (MCBC)…
YEAR: 2019
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The MCBC’s annual report on small business lending in Massachusetts provides information regarding small business lending patterns in Massachusetts
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Building Resiliency through Green Infrastructure
AUTHOR: Johanna Bozuwa
YEAR: 2019
DESCRIPTION:
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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Our Homes, Our Future: How Rent Control Can Build Stable, Healthy Communities
AUTHOR: Amee Chew & Sarah Treuhaft
YEAR: 2019
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Amid the worst renter crisis in a generation, it is time for policymakers to respond to the call for rent contro
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Evaluating Empowerment Economics: A Preliminary Framework for Assessing Innovations in Financial Capability
AUTHOR: Jessica Santos & Meg Lovejoy; Institute on Assets…
YEAR: 2019
DESCRIPTION:
Empowerment Economics is a multi-generational and culturally responsive approach to financial capability developed by and for low-income AAPIs and
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Economic Mobility Services for Affordable Housing Residents Exploring Resident Services as a Vehicle for Economic Success
AUTHOR: Eric Tjon Burnstein, Megan Gallagher, Wilton Oliver…
YEAR: 2019
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As part of Enterprise’s emerging economic mobility initiative, the Urban Institute has released a research report, Economic Mobility Services for A
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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
DESCRIPTION:
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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Gentrification: Framing Our Perceptions
AUTHOR: Rachel Bogardus Drew
YEAR: 2018
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While most urban scholars agree on a generic definition of gentrification – the change that occurs when a traditionally low-income neighborhood exp
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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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Building on What Works: Cross-Sector Community Development
AUTHOR: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
This issue of the Community Development Investment Review celebrates and builds on the themes of What Works and explores innovations and lessons le
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CultureBank: A New Paradigm for Community Investment
AUTHOR: Penelope Douglas and David Erickson
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
Building on the concept of creative placemaking, this paper presents an idea for a Community Development Financial Institution organized around art
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Cities Alive: Towards a Walking World
AUTHOR: Arup
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
The report demonstrates the significant social, economic, environmental and political benefits of walking.
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With Tax Credit Future Unknown, New Mass. Affordable Housing Units Hang In The Balance
AUTHOR: WBUR
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
NPR interviews Bart Mitchell, TCB president and CEO, on the change in value of Low Income Housing Tax Credits and its impact on affordable housing.
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Protecting Families: A Photo Story About Supportive Housing
AUTHOR: Photography by Lydia Thompson & Writing by…
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
A new photo essay depicts life for families served by The Connection’s supportive housing for families program.
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Partnering with CDFIs: Catalysts for Sustainable Community Development
AUTHOR: Tim Cerebe
YEAR: 2017
DESCRIPTION:
The revitalization efforts in Roanoke’s West
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Estimating Cost Reductions Associated with the Community Support Program for People Experiencing Chronic Homelessness
AUTHOR: Thomas Byrne, PhD; George Smart, LICSW
YEAR: 2017
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A new study from the Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation and Pine Street Inn “demonstrates the importance of housing stability and case management as
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