Tools

How Housing Matters

Urban Land Institute, MacArthur Foundation
Website showcases research demonstrating the importance of affordable housing

Community Development Data Guidebook

Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
This how-to guide explains community development data available, how it can be retrieved, and how it can be used

Assets & Opportunity Scorecard

Corporation for Enterprise Development
CFED created an interactive state by state ranking of household financial security and policy solutions

The Poverty Primer

Tamarack- An Institute of Community Engagement
This booklet covers the essential elements of developing and sustaining a long-term, local effort to reduce poverty

Collective Impact Warm-Up Exercises for Meetings

Collective Impact Forum
Compendium of warm-up exercises for group and community meetings

NonprofitReady

Cornerstone OnDemand Foundation
This website offers web based courses and resources on all aspects of non-profit management including development, marketing, and operations

Community Heart and Soul Field Guide

Orton Family Foundation
Guide offers step-by-step instructions on how to engage and motivate residents to take an active role in shaping the future of their communities

The Sustainable Community Indicator Catalog

Partnership for Sustainable Communities
Online resource to help communities measure progress toward their sustainability goals

Child Opportunity Map

Diversity Data Kids and the Kirwan Institute
Map shows areas of opportunity for childred based on health, educational, social and economic indicators all over the United States

Ask Co-op Cathy

Cooperative Development Initiative
Resource for answering any questions you may have on starting a co-op

Opportunity Index

Opportunity Nation
Interactive map of the United States showing how states and counties compare in terms of access to opportunity based on economic, education and community indicators

Beautiful Solutions

Ideas and strategies for building just, democratic, and resilient communities from all over the world. An initiative started because of Naomi Klein's book, This Changes Everything

Developing Your Persuasive Message

M+R Strategic Services
This tool provides a framework to help you or your organization craft a persuasive message to generate appeal for your efforts

Social Impact Calculator

Low Income Investment Fund
This tool helps organizations put a dollar value on their impact including affordable housing, education initiatives and other community development programming

My Mass Mortgage

Citizens' Housing and Planning Association (CHAPA)
CHAPA designed this website to help new homebuyers understand all the steps of the homebuying process in Massachusetts

PolicyLink
Our three organizations created this web information portal in 2013 to maximize the impact of these new opportunities and better support communities seeking to launch healthy food retail projects.

Fair Housing Toolkit

Metropolitan Area Planning Council
The Fair Housing Toolkit brings together available resources to help appointed and elected leaders, municipal planning, housing and development officials, developers, citizen board members, and other volunteers understand how to affirmatively further fair housing.

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