Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

SUPPORT ORGANIZATIONS

Alliance for Healthy Homes
www.afhh.org
Founded in 1990 as the Alliance to End Childhood Lead Poisoning, in 2001 the Group adopted a new name, the Alliance for Healthy Homes, and a new mission that supports a broad healthy homes and communities agenda and aims to provide more proactive support to community-based and local advocacy organizations.

CDC State Associations
www.ncced.org/associations
This web site has links to affordable housing advocacy groups and community development corporation trade associations in all 50 U.S. states.

Center for Community Change
www.communitychange.org
The Center for Community Change (CCC) provides research, technical assistance, networking, and coalition building in an effort to support grassroots organizations that foster community development.

Community Action Partnership
www.communityactionpartnership.com
The Community Action Partnership was established in 1971 as the National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA) and is the national organization representing the interests of the 1,000 Community Action Agencies, which were established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America's War on Poverty. Community Action Agencies help people to help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency. Community Action Agencies play a variety of roles, ranging from providing social services (such as running Head Start programs) to direct participation in asset building, business lending, and housing development.

The Community Development Network (CDN)
www.cdnportland.org
The Community Development Network provides an example of a regional support organization working on affordable housing and community development. Based in Portland, Oregon, the Coalition has had strong successes over the last six years in focusing the attention of the Portland metropolitan region's elected regional government on issues of housing affordability, economic revitalization, and prevention of displacement, as well as strengthening the regional commitment to green space and natural resource protection, creation of a more balanced transportation system, and a compact urban form.

Enterprise Community Partners
www.enterprisecommunity.org
Enterprise Community Partners (formerly The Enterprise Foundation) is a nonprofit community development and housing organization that works through a national network of more than 1,200 organizations to promote employment and housing for low-income individuals and neighborhoods. To date, Enterprise has raised and invested $9 billion in equity, grants and loan and is currently investing in communities at a rate of close to $1 billion a year.

Housing Partnership Network
www.housingpartnership.net
Founded in 1990, the Network has grown to have 95 members, all of which are mature nonprofit housing partnerships with strong track records in development, financing, and management. Collectively, they have developed or financed more than 500,000 affordable homes, helped lower-income families improve and repair 175,000 homes, and served as homeownership counselors to 400,000 families.

Living Cities
www.livingcities.org
Living Cities provides financial and technical support to nonprofit CDCs engaged in improving economically distressed inner city neighborhoods. It creates a mechanism through which major corporations, foundations and federal government can invest in the revitalization of urban neighborhoods.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation
www.liscnet.org
The Local Initiatives Support Coalition works to foster the growth and development of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) with public, private, and non-profit organizations by helping to channel grants and technical support to some of the nation's most distressed areas.

National AIDS Housing Coalition
www.nationalaidshousing.org
Founded in 1994, the National AIDS Housing Coalition acts as a housing policy advocate for people with HIV/AIDS. In addition, the Coalition serves as a network for training, educating and sharing experiences regarding HIV/AIDS housing among housing developers, providers, residents and advocates.

National Alliance of Community Economic Development Associations
www.naceda.org
Founded in March 2007, NACEDA brings together 15 state associations of community development corporations (CDCs), serving as a new national organization for the CDC movement. Goals of the new association include advocating for public policy to support community economic development at the federal level, providing peer-to-peer support and development for state association staff, and supporting the development of new and emerging state associations.

National Coalition for Asian Pacific Community Development
www.nationalcapacd.org
The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development was founded in 1999 and is the first national advocacy organization dedicated to addressing the community development, organizing and advocacy needs of Asian American and Pacific Islander communities nationwide.

National Equity Fund, Inc.
www.nefinc.org
Established by LISC in 1987, the National Equity Fund, in collaboration with some 700 partners, has helped funnel over $6.4 billion in investor equity into projects in more than 200 urban neighborhoods and rural areas nationwide.

National Housing Conference
www.nhc.org
For more than 75 years, the nonprofit National Housing Conference (NHC) has served as a public policy and affordable housing advocacy organization. NHC's nonprofit research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy works to broaden understanding of America's affordable housing challenges and examines the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.

National Housing Trust
www.nhtinc.org
The National Housing Trust (NHT) was founded in 1986 to create policies and practices that further the preservation of affordable apartments. Over the past 10 years, NHT has helped preserve nearly 12,000 HUD insured apartments, utilizing over $750 million in financing. Through a joint venture with Enterprise Community Partners, NHT/Enterprise, the Trust has also directly purchased, renovated and kept affordable properties in Illinois, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C. In addition, the Trust manages a community development fund, which, since 1999, has provided over $5.1 million in predevelopment and bridge loan financing, supporting private investment of over $280 million and helping preserve more than 3,600 units of affordable housing in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington D.C.

National Low Income Housing Coalition
www.nlihc.org
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is a coalition of affordable housing advocates that is leading the campaign for the creation of a National Income Housing Trust Fund. In addition, the coalition does considerable public education, research, and policy advocacy on fair housing, homelessness, and rural housing issues.

Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation
www.nw.org
The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is a nonprofit organization that builds and supports networks of residents and public, private, and nonprofit sector organizations to revitalize declining neighborhoods.