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The Patterns That Limit Organizations—and What Nonprofit Leaders Can Do About It

Dominique Samari
For collaborative leaders and teams seeking deeper transformation, this free-to-read resource offers a compelling framework to move beyond surface-level solutions and address the human dynamics that can most often delay progress and challenge your work.

Future Over Fear: Tools to Build a Different Story

The Opportunity Agenda
This toolkit is designed to help changemakers harness narrative power and messaging skills to advance a vision of a multiracial democracy rooted in equity, inclusion, and collective action.

Rent in Public Housing

If you are a tenant in public housing in Massachusetts, this booklet will give you answers to questions about how rents are set in both state and federal public housing.

Security to Wellbeing Framework Practice Guide

Héctor Malvido, Senior Manager of Partnerships at the Building Movement Project
This guide is for anyone looking to move their organization toward becoming a Service and Social Change Organization—one that not only meets immediate community needs but also works to shift the systems that create those needs in the first place.

Climate and Community Health

Build Healthy Places Network
When community developers and health partners join forces, they don’t just build resilient infrastructure, they create healthier communities. As extreme weather becomes the norm, these partnerships represent a powerful approach for protecting health and wellbeing across the country.

Democracy Resilience Toolkit

Government Alliance on Race & Equity
Prompts and Actions for Navigating Change and Sustaining Racial Equity

Know Your Rights: Understanding and Addressing Appraisal Discrimination

The Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office
As part of her commitment to preserve and expand access to safe, affordable, and equitable homeownership opportunities for all Massachusetts residents, Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell released the office’s first-ever ‘Know Your Rights’ guide designed to help homebuyers and homeowners understand, recognize and report appraisal discrimination.

Healthy Homes: What You Need to Know about Pests and Pesticides

Boston Public Health Commission
What you need to know about pests and pesticides to protect your family's health.

Massachusetts Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Toolkit

Massachusetts Integrated Pest Management
This toolkit consists a self-assessment checklist and resources for procurement staff, managers, and owners of affordable housing.

Resources for Mission-Driven Organizations

This resource hub is designed to support nonprofits by providing updates on federal executive orders and policy changes, insights into their implications for the sector, and strategies to navigate these shifts while centering equity and justice in their work.

Winter Energy Price Spike Communications Toolkit

MAPC
A communications and social media toolkit for Massachusetts municipalities.

Engagement for Equity

Health Resources in Action
HRiA offers a toolkit and playbook for government entities, community organizations and residents to address health inequities and advance equitable outcomes.

NeighborWorks Fall Learning Series: October – December 2024

NeighborWorks America
Convenient, cost-effective online trainings to grow your career and impact!

Center for Housing Data

Massachusetts Housing Partnership
We collect, interpret, and share data to improve state policy, foster effective community conversations and ensure that we meet our housing needs throughout Massachusetts.

The 2024 Elections and Beyond: Fortifying Ourselves, Our Organizations, and Our Ecosystems

Building Movement Project
Election cycles can be opportunities to deepen community engagement, sharpen narratives, and clarify organizational and movement values. As we head towards the November 2024 elections, how can we prepare ourselves as individuals and organizations to play the right roles, to respond quickly to unfolding events, and to buttress our connections and partnerships?

Beyond Democracy: Mobilizing BIPOC Voters in the South

The Opportunity Agenda
Voters of color in the South have been instrumental in challenging systemic inequalities and shaping the political landscape nationwide. Yet, many often feel overlooked, despite being crucial to building a more inclusive and representative democracy. To strengthen your communications in these communities, The Opportunity Agenda developed "Beyond Democracy: Mobilizing BIPOC Voters in the South," a narrative guide that provides tips for telling the story of community, activism, and the importance of civic engagement to protecting our democracy. By creating and promoting a cohesive narrative about the power of collective action, we can build upon BIPOC Southerners’ legacy and rally for policies that create better communities for everyone.

A Conceptual Map of Structural Racism in Health Care

Longstanding racial and ethnic disparities in health care experiences contribute to profoundly inequitable health and life outcomes in the United States.

The Push and Pull: Declining Interest in Nonprofit Leadership

This report presents findings from BMP’s 2022 survey of more than 3,000 nonprofit staff on the factors related to their aspiration to top leadership roles, as well as the experiences of current nonprofit leaders.

The Gap - A Shortage of Affordable Homes

No State Has an Adequate Supply of Affordable Rental Housing for the Lowest-Income Renters

BUILDING A BETTER AFFORDABLE HOUSING FUTURE

How States Can Integrate Health, Energy Efficiency, Working Conditions, and Racial Equity in Their Qualified Allocation Plans

A neighbor saw her moving in and screamed, she said. ‘Well, I looked back at him and screamed.’

Two Black moms integrated public housing in South Boston. Decades later, they call the move courageous.

Global Greater Boston: Immigrants in a Changing Region

For as long as it’s been a city, immigrants have been central to Boston’s identity. For this new report Boston Indicators partnered with Immigration Research Initiative to analyze who makes up immigrant communities in Greater Boston, quantify what they contribute to our regional economy, and detail the immigration pathways they take to get here.

Advocates' Guide 2024!

Every year, the National Low Income Housing Coalition publishes the Advocates’ Guide to educate advocates of all kinds about the programs and policies that make housing affordable to low-income people across America.

Building Inclusive AI: Strategies for Training Against Racism

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved since 2021, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. However, with the integration of AI into various sectors and applications, the issue of bias in AI has rightfully come to the forefront of discussion. Recognizing and addressing bias in generative AI models is crucial to building inclusive technology which ensures diverse perspectives are factored, and that outcomes are both fair and equitable.

A VISION FOR INCLUSIVE COMMUNITIES

MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR RACIAL EQUITY IN HOUSING

Compare Project Management Software

Search and select project management software to build your own comparison and see which provider best fits your requirements.

Slides for Webinar: DHCD Sustainability, Resiliency, and Healthy Homes 4.19.23

Gregory Abbe, DHCD
Come learn about ways that Public Housing Residents, DHCD, and Housing Authorities can work together to create healthier, more resilient buildings that emit fewer greenhouse gasses.

Webinar: DHCD Sustainability, Resiliency, and Healthy Homes 4.19.23

Slides for Webinar: Understanding Who's Who - DHCD, the LHA Board, and the Local Tenant Organization 2.8.23

Sarah O'Leary and Bill Halfpenny, DHCD
For Residents and LHA Board Members Join this webinar with DHCD and the Mel King Institute to understand the different powers of the Local Tenant Organization, the LHA Board, and DHCD. Residents will learn more about the "chain of command" for resolving individual problems, the expansive powers of their local Board, and the limits of DHCD's authority.

Webinar: Understanding Who's Who - DHCD, the LHA Board, and the Local Tenant Organization 2.8.23

Local Housing Authority (LHA) Fiscal Year Ends

LHA Fiscal Year Ends

Slides for Running Community Meetings Webinar 2.8.23

Gillian Mason
Join MKI Trainer Gillian Mason for a discussion about how your LTO can run a good community meeting. We speak about reasons for holding meetings, the role meetings play in an effective tenant association, and share some sample meeting agendas. We also speak about balancing participation and handling tough participants.

Running Community Meetings Webinar 2.8.23

RLA Tenant Participation Regulations - Trivia Answer Key

Resident Leadership Academy Tenant Participation Regulation Trivia Answer Key

Slides for Webinar: Performance Management Reviews (PMR) with DHCD 12.7.22

Lisa Taylor and Robert Garrett, DHCD
Local Housing Authorities participate in a Performance Management Review (PMR) in the areas of finance/management, capital, maintenance, and CHAMP as established by the Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD). In this presentation, DHCD will give an overview of PMR criteria and will specifically focus on the new CHAMP and maintenance PMR criteria.

Webinar: Performance Management Reviews (PMR) with DHCD 12.7.22

Slides for Capital Project Implementation Process, Featuring DHCD 10.18.22

Stefanie Brynen, DHCD
Join this webinar with DHCD (The Department of Housing and Community Development) to learn more about implementing capital improvements at your Local Housing Authority. We discuss how residents and board members are involved in this process.

Slides for Community Leadership 101

Francisco Ramos, NewVue Communities
Whether you are a community leader or work with community leaders, join us for this training! We will cover the basics of developing community leadership in an organizing and power-building context. We’ll cover organizing principles, the role of the community leader, turn-out, leader role modeling, and more. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the work, you’re invited to share your wisdom, stories, and questions. This training will kick of a series focused on community leadership. GOALS Create greater shared understanding of basic organizing/leadership concepts among CDC organizers and other interested folks Create peer learning opportunities across community leaders, organizers and possibly RSCs. Spark a longer ongoing process to help professionals accomplish their goals RE leadership development; identify further training topics Build direct skills for community leaders

Community Leadership 101

Francisco Ramos, NewVue Communities and Sarah Byrnes, RLA Director
Whether you are a community leader or work with community leaders, join us for this training! We will cover the basics of developing community leadership in an organizing and power-building context. We’ll cover organizing principles, the role of the community leader, turn-out, leader role modeling, and more. Whether you are a seasoned professional or new to the work, you’re invited to share your wisdom, stories, and questions. This training will kick of a series focused on community leadership. GOALS Create greater shared understanding of basic organizing/leadership concepts among CDC organizers and other interested folks. Create peer learning opportunities across community leaders, organizers and possibly RSCs. Spark a longer ongoing process to help professionals accomplish their goals RE leadership development; identify further training topics Build direct skills for community leaders.

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