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ARTICLES

Bob Agres, “Community Building in Hawai’i,” The Nonprofit Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, summer 2005.
article-agres.pdf (112KB)

Gar Alperovitz, “Cross-Sectoral Economic-Related Institutional Innovation.” Opening address to the Forum on Intersectoral Relations sponsored by The Aspen Institute Nonprofit Sector Research Fund, Washington, D.C., January 12, 2003.
http://democracycollaborative.umd.edu/publications/
books/alperovitz_speech_012103.html

Gar Alperovitz, “Our Updated Challenge: Building the (Co-) Ownership Society,” Nonprofit Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, summer 2005.
article-alperovitz.pdf (170KB)

Bo Beaulieu and Marcus Littles, A Look at the Mid South Delta Region: A Glimpse of Its Assets, Socioeconomic Complexion and Emerging Opportunities, Dallas, TX: National Rural Funders Collaborative, September 2008.
article-beaulieu-littles.pdf (450KB)

J. Peter Byrne and Michael Diamond, “Affordable Housing, Land Tenure, and Urban Policy: The Matrix Revealed,” Fordham Urban Law Journal, Vol. XXXIV, May 2007.
article-bryne-diamond.pdf (360KB)

Rick Cohen, “Insular Pilot Programs or To-Scale Response?” The Nonprofit Quarterly, vol. 12, no. 2, summer 2005.
article-cohen.pdf (109KB)

Randall Crane and Michael Manville, “People or Place? Revisiting the Who Versus the Where of Urban Development,” Cambridge, MA: Land Lines, July 2008.
article-crane-manville.pdf (407KB)

Howard Cutler, “Charting a New Course in Portland [Oregon],” Shelterforce, Fall 2007, issue 151.
article-cutler.pdf (148KB)

Andrea Glickman and Trish Kelly, Rural Economic Development in a Diverse and Rapidly Changing Land, Davis, CA: UC Davis Center for the Study of Regional Change, Submitted to the National Rural Funders Collaborative: Closing the Gap Conference, August 1, 2008.
article-glickman-et-al.pdf (170KB)

DeAnna Green, “Addressing Concentrated Poverty in America,” Communities & Banking, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Winter 2009, pp. 24-27.
article-green.pdf (4.4MB)

Paul Grogan, President & CEO, The Boston Foundation, “Making Boston the ‘Opportunity City,’ Waltham: MA, Institute on Assets and Social Policy, Brandeis University, Feb. 2006.
article-grogan.pdf (112KB)

Ted Howard, “Ownership Matters,” Yes! Spring 1999.
www.futurenet.org/article.asp?id=776

Marjorie Kelly, “Not Just for Profit,” New York, NY: strategy+business, Issue no. 54, Spring 2009.
article-kelly.pdf (650KB)

Mike Longman and Jarrett Murphy, “After Hurricane Katrina New Orleans is Coming Back But What Kind of City Will Emerge from the Rubble?” New York: NY: City Limits, August 2008.
article-longman-murphy.pdf (1.75MB)

Mission Asset Fund, The Mission Asset Fund: El Fondo Popular de la Misión, San Francisco, CA: MAF, February 2007.
article-maf.pdf (4KB)

Nelson Merced and Melvyn Colon, “NeighborWorks Organizations as Institutions for Asset Building,” Bright Ideas, summer 2005, pp. 42-44.
article-merced-colon.pdf (244KB)

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Martin Merzer, Even as Living Cities changes, America’s urban neighborhoods stay in view, Miami, FL: John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, September 15, 2008.
article-merzer.pdf (2.5MB)

Yvon Poirier and Emily Kawano, Another economy is possible! Visions related to building the solidarity economy and related alternatives in North America. Quebec, CA: Paper submitted to Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and Solidarity-based Economy (ALOE) and RIPESS North America, July 2008.
article-pourier-kawano.pdf (700KB)

James A. Richardson, Jr., and Jonathan K. London, “Strategies and Lessons for Reducing Persistent Rural Poverty: A Social-Justice Approach to Funding Rural Community Transformation,” Journal of the Community Development Society, vol. 38, no. 1, spring 2007.
article-richardson-london.pdf (722KB)

Lisa Schamess, “Everything Old Is New Again,” Washington, DC: American Planning Association, 2006.
article-schamess.pdf (130KB)

Joseph Schilling, Buffalo as the Nation’s First Living Laboratory for Reclaiming Vacant Properties, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, July 2008.
article-schilling08.pdf (200KB)

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, and Ted Howard, “Asset Building Comes of Age,” Shelterforce, spring 2007, issue 149, pp. 24-25, 44-45.
article-shelterforce.pdf (144KB)

Hannah Thomas and Thomas M. Shapiro, “Twenty-First Century Owners: Individual and Community Stakes,” San Francisco, CA: Community Investments, winter 2008.
article-thomas-shapiro.pdf (280KB)

Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, and Ted Howard, “7 Cool Companies: The Best Alternatives to Corporate Power,” Yes!, Fall 2007, issue 43, pp. 42-45.
article-yes.pdf (4.1MB)

BOOKS

Gar Alperovitz, America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our Democracy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2005. Introduction and other supporting materials available on line at:
www.americabeyondcapitalism.com/
book-alperovitz-intro.pdf (95KB)

James DeFillipis, Unmaking Goliath: Community Control in the Face of Global Capital. New York: Routledge, 2004.

Jeff Gates, The Ownership Solution: Towards a shared Capitalism for the 21st Century. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1998.

William Greider, The Soul of Capitalism: Opening Paths to a Moral Economy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Michael Shuman, Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age. New York: Routledge, 2000.

Shann Turnbull, Democratising the Wealth of Nations: from new money sources and profit motives, Sydney, AUS: Company Directors Association of Australian Ltd, 2000.
book-turnball.pdf (450KB)

Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, and Gar Alperovitz. Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era. New York: Routledge, 2003.

PAPERS

Gar Alperovitz, An Asset Based Community Development Paradigm for Twenty-First Century Development. Working Paper no. 7. Baltimore, Md.: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Winter 2003.
paper-alperovitz.pdf (440KB)

Jason Bailey, The Forest and Wood Products Sector in Appalachian Kentucky: What We Heard and What We Learned, Berea, KY: Mountain Association for Community Development, February 2009.
paper-bailey.pdf (970KB)

Peter Barnes, “Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right.” Stockbridge, MA: E.F. Schumacher Society, October 2003.
www.schumachersociety.org/lec-Barnes03.html

Terry Bergdall, Reflections on the Catalytic Role of an Outsider in ‘Asset Based Community Development’ (ABCD), Evanston, IL: ABCD Institute at Northwestern University, February 21, 2003.
paper-bergdall.pdf (100KB)

Barbara Bezdek, Putting Community Equity in Community Development: Resident Equity Participation in Urban Redevelopment, Baltimore, MD: University Maryland School of Law, No. 2009-3, January 2009.
paper-bezdek.pdf (450KB)

Angela Blackwell and Radhika K. Fox, Regional Equity and Smart Growth: Opportunities for Advancing Social and Economic Justice in America, Coral Gables, FL: Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, 2004.
paper-blackwell-fox.pdf (352KB)

Angela Glover Blackwell and Sarah Treuhaft, Regional Equity and the Quest for Full Inclusion, Oakland, PA: PolicyLink, March 2008.
paper-blackwell-treuhaft.pdf (200KB)

Paul C. Brophy and Joy L. Borkholder, Strengthening Portal Neighborhoods, Boston, MA: CEO for Cities, February 19, 2007.
paper-brophy-brokholder.pdf (708KB)

Paul C. Brophy and Jennifer S. Vey, “Seizing City Assets: Ten Steps to Urban Land Reform,” Washington, DC: Center on Urban & Metropolitan Policy, The Brookings Institution, October 2002.
paper-brophy-vey.pdf (760KB)

Maureen Conway and Kirsten Moy, Family Economics: Work and Wealth in the New Economy. Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, 2005.
paper-conway-moy.pdf (120KB)

Gary Delgado, Zeroing In: Choices and Challenges for the National Rural Funders Collaborative, New York, NY: Applied Research Center, July 10, 2005.
paper-delgado.pdf (2.2MB)

Leila Fiester, Building a Community of Community Builders: The National Community Building Network 1993-2005, Oakland, CA: Urban Strategies Council, 2007.
paper-fiester.pdf (290KB)

Yolanda K. Kodrzycki and Ana Patricia Muñoz, with Lynn Browne, DeAnna Green, Marques Benton, Prabal Chakrabarti, David Plasse, Richard Walker, and Bo Zhao, Reinvigorating Springfield’s Economy: Lessons from Resurgent Cities, no. 2009-03, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, August 2009.
paper-kodrzycki-munoz.pdf (1.5MB)

Diane K. Levy, Jennifer Comey, and Sandra Padilla, In the Face of Gentrification: Case Studies of Local Efforts to Mitigate Displacement, Washington, DC: The Urban Institute, 2006.
paper-levy-et-al.pdf (956KB)

Jeffrey Lubell, Strengthening the Ladder for Sustainable Homeownership, Washington, D.C.: Center for Housing Policy, Feb. 14, 2006.
paper-lubell.ppt (160KB)

Deborah Markley and Nancy Stark, Entrepreneurship Development in Rural America: Insights into Triple Bottom Line and Wealth Creation Impacts of Entrepreneurship Strategies, Columbia, MO and Washington, DC: Rural Policy Research Institute and CFED, February 2009.
paper-markley-stark.pdf (330KB)

Dwayne S. Marsh with Kalima Rose,Victor Rubin, Rachel Poulain, Tony Davis and Melissa Magallanes, Promise and Challenge: Achieving Regional Equity in Greater Boston, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, May 2003.
paper-marsh-et-al.pdf (2.9MB)

Heather McCulloch and Beadsie Woo, Expanding Asset-Building opportunities through Shared Ownership, Baltimore, MD: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2008.
paper-mcculloch-woo.pdf (180KB)

Jeremy Nowak, Creativity and Neighborhood Development: Strategies for Community Investment, Philadelphia, PA: The Reinvestment Fund, December 2007.
paper-nowak.pdf (2.5MB)

Deborah Groban Olson and Alan Zundel, “A Half-Dozen Bold New Ideas for Spreading Capital Ownership. Kent, Ohio: Ohio Employee Ownership Center, 2001.
http://cog.kent.edu/lib/Olson&Zundel.htm

Winton Pitcoff, Investing in People: Building the Capacity of Community Development, Training, and Social Enterprise Practitioners, New York, NY: Human and institutional Capacity Building: A Rockefeller Foundation Series, Issue no. 1, 2004.
paper-pitcoff.pdf (160KB)

Regional Transportation Strategies, Inc., A Compendium of Clusters in Less Populated Places: Circumstances, Interventions, and Outcomes, Carrboro, NC: RTS, Inc., February 2009,
paper-rts.pdf (640KB)

Bárbara J. Robles, Asset and Capacity Building Opportunities and Challenges in Latino Communities, Albuquerque, NM: National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, June 25, 2003.
paper-robles.pdf (540KB)

Victor Rubin, Safety, Growth, and Equity: Infrastructure Policies That Promote Opportunity and Inclusion, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, November 2006.
paper-rubin.pdf (1.6MB)

Nancy Stark, Deborah Markley, and Laura Arce, Assessment Narrative: Effective Rural Entrepreneurship Development Case Studies—Assessing Contributions Toward Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Impacts, Washington, DC and Columbia, MO: CFED and Rural Policy Research Institute and CFED, July 2008.
paper-stark-markley-arce2.pdf (370KB)

Nancy Stark, Deborah Markley, and Laura Arce, Understanding and Measuring the Impacts of Entrepreneurship Development on Wealth Creation and the Triple Bottom Line: Evidence from Case Examples, Washington, DC and Columbia, MO: CFED and Rural Policy Research Institute and CFED, July 2008.
paper-stark-markley-arce.pdf (300KB)

David Zuckerman, Community Wealth Building at the State and Local Level, paper produced for Prof. Steve Elkin, Dept. of Government, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, December 2008.
paper-zuckerman.pdf (400KB)

REPORTS

Alan Abramson, editor, Enterprising Organizations: New Asset-Based and Other Innovative Approaches to Solving Social and Economic Problems: Highlights from a forum on Social Enterprise, Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, Nonprofit Sector and Philanthropy Porgram, 2005.
report-abramson.pdf (12.2MB)

Sabine Awad et al., Signs of Promise: Stories of Philanthropic Leadership in Advancing Regional and Neighborhood Equity, Coral Gables, FL: Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, August 2005.
report-awad-et-al.pdf (4.4MB)

Judith Bell and Victor Rubin, Why Place Matters: Building a Movement for Healthy Communities, Oakland and Los Angeles, CA: PolicyLink and The California Endowment, 2007.
report-bell-rubin.pdf (2.4MB)

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Carmen Bendixen, et al, Uniting People, Places, & Systems: Megalopolis Unbound, University of Pennsylvania School of Design, Department of City & Regional Planning, April 2006.
report-bendixen-et-al.pdf (8.3MB)

Lucy Bernholz, Katherine Fulton, and Gabriel Kasper, On the Brink of New Promise: The Future of U.S. Community Foundations, San Francisco, CA: Blueprint Research & Design and Monitor Company Group Ltd., 2005.
report-bernholz.pdf (1.2MB)

David Bollier and Jonathan Rowe, The Commons Rising, edited by Peter Barnes and Seth Zuckerman, Minneapolis, MN: Tamales Bay Institute, 2006.
report-bollier-rowe.pdf (2.8MB)

Kim Burnett and Jason Gray, Strengthening Rural Families: Bridging Economically Isolated Rural and Urban Communities, Baltimore, MD: The Annie E. Casey Foundation, 2004.
report-burnett-gray.pdf (910KB)

Jerry Colonna, Sara Horowtiz, Michael Shuman, and Andrew Lamas, Assets for All: Leveraging the Market to Create Community Wealth, New York, NY: Demos, June 28, 2005.
report-colonna-et-al.pdf (1.9MB)

Reid Cramer, Leslie Parrish, and Ray Boshara, The Assets Report 2006: A Review, Assessment, and Forecast of Federal Assets Policy, Washington, D.C.: New America Foundation, February 2006.
report-cramer-et-al.pdf (140KB)

The Democracy Collaborative, Your Community's Economic Future: A Guide
to Innovative State and Local Policies. College Park, MD, 2001.
report-dc.pdf (784KB)

Elaine L. Edgcomb, Joyce A. Klein, and David Black, Revitalizing Rural Economies Through Entrepreneurship Development Systems, Washington, DC: The Aspen Institute, December 2008.
report-edgcomb-et-al.pdf (680KB)

First Nations Development Institute, Integrated Asset-Building Strategies for Reservation-Based Communities: A 27-Year Retrospective of First Nations Development Institute, Longmont, CO: FNDI, 2007.
report-fndi.pdf (5.2MB)

Rebeca Fluornoy and Sarah Treuhaft, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities through Food Retailing. Oakland and Woodland Hills, CA: Policy Link and the California Endowment, 2005.
report-fluornoy-treuhaft.pdf (2.6MB)

Radhika Fox and Miriam Axel-Lute, “To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities,” Oakland, CA, PolicyLink, July 2008.
report-fox-axel-lute.pdf (5MB)

Radhika K. Fox and Sarah Treuhaft, with Regan Douglass, Shared Prosperity, Stronger Regions: An Agenda for Rebuilding America’s Older Core Cities. Oakland, CA and Denver, CO: PolicyLink and Community Development Practitioners’ Network, 2006.
report-fox-treuhaft.pdf (6.9MB)

James Head and Tanya Clark, Marston, Economic Development Through a Racial Lens, San Francisco, CA: The San Francisco Foundation, September 2007.
report-head-marston.pdf (2MB)

Lorlene Hoyt and André Leroux, Voices from Forgotten Cities: Innovative Revitalization Coalitions in America’s Older Small Cities, Oakland, CA; Boston, MA; and Cambridge, MA: PolicyLink, Citizens’ Housing and Planning Association, and MIT School of Architecture and Planning, 2007.
report-hoyt-leroux.pdf (944MB)

Andrew M. Isserman, Edward Feser, and Drake Warren, Why Some Rural Communities Prosper While Others Do Not, report prepared for the Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development, U.S. Department of Agriculture, under Cooperative Agreement AG RBCSRBS-02-12., Urbana-Champaign, IL: University of Illinois, May 23, 2007.
report-isserman-et-al.pdf (1.6MB)

Glenn Johnson, Angel Torres, Samir Gambhir, Mary McGirl, Julie Nielsen, Jason Reece, Rebecca Reno, Denis Rhoden Jr., Christy Rogers, Angela Stanley, and Arnold Chandler, Regionalism: Growing Together To Expand Opportunity To All, submitted to the Presidents’ Council of Cleveland, Washington, DC: African-American Forum on Race and Regionalism, May 2007.
report-johnson-et-al.pdf (8.4MB)

Dan Kildee, Jonathan Logan, Alan Mallach, and Joseph Schilling, Regenerating Youngstown and Mahoning County Through Vacant Property Reclamation: Reforming Systems and Right-sizing Markets, Washington, DC: National Vacant Properties Campaign, February 2009.
report-kildee-et-al.pdf (1.4MB)

Deborah Markley and Karen Dabson, Innovative Approaches to Entrepreneurial Development: Cases from the Northwest Region, Columbia, MO: Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI), Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, 2007.
report-markley-dabson.pdf (1.3MB)

Deborah Markley, Erik Pages, Brian Dabson, Thomas Johnson, Sara Lawrence, Sara Yanosy, and Karen Dabson, Creating an Entrepreneurial Appalachian Region: Findings and Lessons from an Evaluation of the Appalachian Regional Commission’s Entrepreneurship Initiative, 1997-2005, Washington, DC and Lincoln, NE: Appalachian Regional Commission and the Rural Policy Research Institute, Center for Rural Entrepreneurship, April 2008.
report-markley-et-al.pdf (830KB)

Heather McCulloch, Building Assets While Building Communities: Expanding Savings & Investment Opportunities for Low-Income Bay Area Residents, report for the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, San Francisco, CA: Asset Building Strategies, February 2006.
report-mcculloch.pdf (452KB)

Heather McCulloch and Lisa Robinson, Resident Ownership Mechanisms, Policy Link: Oakland, CA, 2001.
report-mc-culloch.pdf (788KB)

Harry Moroz and John Petro, No Economic Recovery Without Cities: The Urgency Of A New Federal Urban Policy, New York, NY: Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, 2009.
report-moroz-petro.pdf (500KB)

National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, Best Practices in Latino Asset Building, San Antonio, TX and St. Paul, Minnesota: NALCAB and Northwest Area Foundation, 2008.
report-nalcab-nwaf.pdf (2MB)

Analisa Nazareno, with Rebecca Lemos, Best Practices in Latino Asset-Building, San Antonio, TX: National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders, January 2008.
report-nazareno.pdf (2MB)

Manuel Pastor, coordinator, Edging Toward Equity: Creating Shared Opportunity in America’s Regions—Report from the Conversation On Regional Equity (CORE), Santa Cruz, CA: Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2006.
report-pastor.pdf (769KB)

Peter Plastrick. Asset Building for Social Change: Pathways to Large Scale Impact. New York: Ford Foundation, February 2004.
report-plastrick.pdf (1.84MB)

Maggie Potapchuk, Community Change Processes and Progress in Addressing Racial Inequities, Baltimore, MD and New York, NY: MP Associates, Inc. and Aspen Institute Roundtable for Community Change, October 2007.
report-potapchuk_10-07.pdf (556KB)

Maggie Potapchuk and Sally Leiderman, with Donna Bivens and Barbara Major, Flipping the Script: White Privilege and Community Building, Silver Spring, MD and Conshohocken, PA: MP Associates, Inc. and Center for Assessment and Policy Development, 2005.
report-potapchuk.pdf (2.5MB)

Amaad Rivera, Jeannette Huezo, Christina Kasica, and Dedrick Muhammad, The Silent Depression: State of the Dream 2009, Boston, MA: United for a Fair Economy, January 2009.
report-rivera-et-al.pdf (3.7MB)

Lisa Robinson with Judith Bell, Raymond A. Colmenar, and Milly Hawk Daniel, Market Creek Plaza: Toward Resident Ownership of Neighborhood Change: A PolicyLink Case Study, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink, April 2005.
report-robinson.pdf (3.9MB)

Lisa Robinson et al., Promoting Regional Equity: A Framing Paper. Oakland, CA and Miami, FL: PolicyLink and the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, November 2002.
report-robinson-et-al.pdf (1.2MB)

Kristin Rusch, The Emerging New Society. College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, 2001.
report-rusch.pdf (2.08MB)

Amanda Sheldon, Phillip Bush, Aaron Kearsley and Anne Gass, The Challenge of Foreclosed Properties: An Analysis of State and Local Plans to use the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., 2009.
report-sheldon-et-al.pdf (1.7MB)

Rebecca Sohmer, with contributions from David Jackson, Bruce Katz, Amy Liu and David Warren, Mind the Gap: Reducing Disparities to Improve Regional Competitiveness in the Twin Cities, Washington, DC, Minneapolis, MN, and New York, NY: the Brookings Institution on Metropolitan Policy Program, Itasca Project, and Living Cities, 2005.
report-sohmer-et-al.pdf (2.3MB)

Sarah Treuhaft, Arnold Chandler, Josh Kirschenbaum, Melissa Magallanes, and Randal Pinkett, Bridging the Innovation Divide: An Agenda for Disseminating Technology Innovations within the Nonprofit Sector, Oakland, CA and Newark, NJ: PolicyLink and BCT Partners, winter 2007.
report-treuhaft-et-al.pdf (916KB)

Sarah Treuhaft and G. Thomas Kingsley, Transforming Community Development with Land Information Systems, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2008.
report-treuhaft-kingsley.pdf (2.8MB)