October 2008 Updates 
Todd Andrews, “The College as Community Based Organization,” Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Communities & Banking, pp. 6-8, Fall 2008.
article-andrews.pdf (169KB)
Erbin Crowell, “Investing in Co-ops, Building Community Wealth,” The Cooperative Capital Fund, August 18, 2008.
article-crowell08.pdf (91KB)
Steve Dubb, CFED’s biennial Asset Learning Conference, College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, September 2008.
article-dubb-cfed.pdf (100KB)
Stacy Mitchell, “Pennsylvania Seeds a New Crop of Local Grocery Stores,” Minneapolis, MN: The Hometown Advantage, New Rules Project, September 12, 2008.
article-mitchell08.pdf (375KB)
Shelterforce, “What Green Means For Communities,” Maplewood, NJ: National Housing Institute, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2008.
article-shelterforce08.pdf (1.5MB)
Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, ShoreBank Enterprise Cleveland partners with community leaders to establish new fund aimed at developing Cooperatively Owned Businesses in NEO: Evergreen Cooperative Development Fund will launch first business in early 2009, Cleveland, OH: ShoreBank, September 2008.
article-shorebank.pdf (68KB)
Steve Dubb, Interview of Rodney North, Vice Chair, Equal Exchange, College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, September 2008.
interview-north.pdf (138KB)
Reid Cramer, Rourke O’Brien, and Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini, “The Assets Agenda: Policy Options to Promote Savings and Asset Ownership By Low- and Moderate-Income Americans,” Washington, DC: New America Foundation’s Asset Building Program, September 2008.
paper-cramer-et-al08.pdf (1.6MB)
Jim Baller and Casey Lide, “Capturing the Promise of Broadband for North Carolina and America,” Washington, DC, The Baller Herbst Law Group, June 2008.
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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)
Gerald Glaser and Jennifer Danek,, “A Vital Partnership: Great Cities, Great Universities,” The Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, July 2008.
report-glaser-et-al.pdf (3MB)
The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs “Evolution of social enterprise industry: A chronology of key events,” Dallas, TX: The Institute for Social Entrepreneurs, August 2008.
report-ise.pdf (2.1MB)
Leslie Hatfield and Destin Joy Layne, “Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools For the Sustainable Food Moment,” New York, NY: Eat Well Guide, 2008. report-layne-
report-layne-hatfield.pdf (2.3MB)
Mark Carl Rom, “What’s Happening To The Neighborhood,” Washington, DC: National Neighborhood Coalition, Summer 2008.
report-rom-et-al.pdf (4MB)
The New Press, UNJUST DESERTS: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back by Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly, to be published by The New Press in November 2008, New York, NY: The New Press, Sept. 2008.
unjust-deserts-press.pdf (150KB)
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July 2008 Updates
Cleveland Foundation, Cleveland, OH: Blueprint for a Green Economy, Cleveland,
OH: Cleveland Foundation, April 2008.
article-cleveland-fdn08.pdf (140KB)
Steve Dubb, Summit Gathers 900 to Develop Vision of “Metro Nation,”
College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, June 2008.
article-dubb-brookings.pdf (115KB)
Steve Dubb, Business Network Aims to Build the Green Economy, College Park, MD:
The Democracy Collaborative, June 2008.
article-dubb-coop-america.pdf (125KB)
Steve Dubb, Worker Co-op Gathering Highlights Sector Innovations, College Park,
MD: The Democracy Collaborative, June 2008.
article-dubb-usfwc.pdf (100KB)
Karl Stark, “Nonprofit with for-profit ideas,” Philadelphia Inquirer,
April 21, 2008.
article-stark.pdf (230KB)
Anna Steiger, “Linking Institutional Investors to Communities,” Communities
& Banking, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, summer 2008, pp. 13-15.
article-steiger.pdf (135KB)
Michael Edwards, Just Another Emperor?: The Myths and Realities of Philanthrocapitalism,
New York, NY and London, UK: Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action and The
Young Foundation, 2007.
book-edwards.pdf (935KB)
Steve Dubb, Interview of John Logue, Executive Director, Ohio Employee Ownership
Center of Kent, OH. College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, May 2008.
interview-logue.pdf (215KB)
Cinthia Schuman Ottinger, Mobilizing Change: 10 nonprofit Policy Proposals to
strengthen U.s. communities, Washington, DC: Aspen Institute, Nonprofit Sector
and Philanthropy Program, June 2008.
paper-ottinger.pdf (4MB)
John Emmeus Davis and Rick Jacobus, The City–CLT Partnership Municipal Support
for Community Land Trusts, Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, June
2008.
report-davis-jacobus.pdf (2.4MB)
Alan Mallach, Managing Neighborhood Change: A Framework for Sustainable and Equitable
Revitalization, Montclair, NJ: National Housing Institute, April 2008.
report-mallach.pdf (490KB)
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)
Bill Shore Jennifer Vanica, Mario Morino, Sean Closkey, Clara Miller, Julius Walls,
and George Gendron, Achieving Impact and Sustainability through Market-Based Approaches:
Discussion Highlights, A convening sponsored by Community Wealth Ventures, October
27, 2007, Washington, DC: Community Wealth Ventures, March 2008.
report-shore-et-al.pdf (780KB)
Andrew Wolk, Advancing Social Entrepreneurship—Recommendations for Policy
Makers and Government Agencies, Cambridge, MA and Washington, DC: Root Cause
and the Aspen Institute, April 2008.
report-wolk.pdf (600KB)
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April 2008 Updates
Steve Dubb, CDCs Confront the Foreclosure Crisis: NACEDA 2nd Annual Summit and Policy Conference, College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, April 2008.
article-dubb-naceda08.pdf (120KB)
Steve Dubb, Conference Addresses Challenges, Opportunities In America’s Older Cities: Reinventing Older Communities, 3rd Biennial Conference–Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, Community Affairs Department. College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, April 2008.
article-dubb-reinventing.pdf (128KB)
Steve Dubb, Conference Aims to Consolidate Smart Growth Principles in Public Policy: New Partners for Smart Growth, 7th Annual Conference, College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, March 2008.
article-dubb-smart-growth.pdf (105KB)
James Flanigan, “Entrepreneurial Edge: Small Businesses Offer Alternatives to Gang Life,” New York Times, March 20, 2008.
article-flanigan08.pdf (460KB)
Judy Newman, “Balancing the Cost: Shared equity home ownership addresses affordable housing needs,” On Common Ground, Winter 2008, pp. 10-15.
article-newman.pdf (855KB)
Ken Reardon, “Rebuilding a Community: Lessons for New Orleans,” Communities & Banking, spring 2008, pp. 13-15.
article-reardon08.pdf (955KB)
Randy Shore, “Translink's $1.5B real estate empire: Authority to buy properties along rapid transit routes and form partnerships with developers,” Vancouver Sun, March 19, 2008.
article-shore.pdf (155KB)
Michael Swack, “Expanding Philanthropy’s Reach: Mission-Related Investing at the F.B. Heron Foundation,” Communities & Banking, spring 2008, pp. 28-30.
article-swack08.pdf (485KB)
Susan M. Wachter, Kevin C. Gillen, and Carolyn R. Brown, “Green Investment Strategies: A Positive Force in Cities,” Communities & Banking, spring 2008, pp. 24-27.
article-wachter-et-al.pdf (1.8MB)
Reid Ewing, Keith Bartholomew, Steve Winkelman, Jerry Walters and Don Chen, “Overview,” Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change, Washington, DC: Urban Land Institute, 2008.
chapter-ewing-et-al.pdf (7.4MB)
Steve Dubb, Interview of Eric Weaver, Executive Director, Lenders for Community Development of San Jose, CA. College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, March 2008.
interview-weaver.pdf (180KB)
Gregory D. Squires, Do Subprime Loans Create Subprime Cities? Surging inequality and the rise in predatory lending, EPI Briefing Paper no. 197, Washington, DC: Economic Policy Institute, February 28, 2008.
paper-squires.pdf (255KB)
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January 2008 Updates
Gar Alperovitz, Steve Dubb, and Ted Howard, “New Approaches
Are Needed to Curb Poverty,” The Chronicle of Philanthropy,
volume 20, no. 3, November 2007.
article-alperovitz-et-al.pdf
(108KB)
Austin Burke and Sondra Myers, Scranton Community Wealth-Building
Initiative Gains Momentum, Scranton, PA: Greater Scranton
Chamber of Commerce and Scranton University, December 20,
2007.
article-burke-myers.pdf
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Steve Dubb, OFN: Developing the Next Generation of Community
Development Finance, College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative,
January 2008.
article-dubb-ofn.pdf
(100KB)
Sean D. Hamill, “Medical Center to Support Tuition
Fund in Pittsburgh,” New York Times, December 5, 2007.
article-hamill.pdf
(64KB)
Rick Mattoon, “Do Colleges and Universities Have a
Role in Local and Regional Economic Development?” Profitwise
News & Views, October 2007, pp. 1-4.
article-mattoon.pdf
(972KB)
Linda Watkins, “Providence Business Uplifts the Poor,”
Communities & Banking, January 2008, pp. 29-31.
article-watkins.pdf
(196KB)
Steve Dubb, Interview of Maggie DeSantis, President, Warren Conner Development Corporation (Detroit, MI), College Park, MD: The Democracy Collaborative, January 2008.
interview-desantis.pdf
(148KB)
Anna Steiger, Tessa Hebb, and Lisa Hagerman, The Case for
the Community Partner in Economic Development, Community Affairs,
Discussion Paper 07-5, Boston, MA: Federal Reserve of Boston,
November 2007.
paper-steiger-et-al.pdf
(664KB)
Dafina Williams, The NEXT Opportunity: Leveraging Opportunity
Finance through State Legislation, Philadelphia, PA: Opportunity
Finance Network, November 2007.
paper-williams.pdf
(340KB)
Alan Berube, Metro Nation: How U.S. Metropolitan Areas Fuel
American Prosperity, Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution,
Metropolitan Policy Program, 2007.
report-berube.pdf
(8.2MB)
Sarena D. Seifer and Annika R. Sgambelluri, editors, Partnership
Perspectives, vol. 4, no. 1, Seattle, WA: Community-Campus
Partnerships for Health, 2007.
report-seifer-et-al.pdf
(6.1MB)
Andrew M. Wolk, Social Entrepreneurship & Government:
A New Breed of Entrepreneurs Developing Solutions to Social
Problems, Cambridge, MA: Root Cause, 2007.
report-wolk.pdf
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