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Issue #102, November/December 1998 |
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Issue #102, November/December 1998 |
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Publications & StudiesAn Action Guide to the Community Development Block Grant Program helps low-income groups understand the CDBG program. $15 pp. or free to low-income community groups. Also, Saving and Creating Good Jobs: A Study of Industrial Retention and Expansion Programs, the third of four studies on approaches to cost effective job creation and economic empowerment by the Center for Community Change. $10. Center for Community Change Publications, 1000 Wisconsin Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20007. www.communitychange.org/order.htm Ten Cities 1997-1998: A Snapshot of Family Homelessness Across America available from Homes for the Homeless/Institute for Children and Poverty, 36 Cooper Station, 6th fl., New York, NY 10003; 212-529-5252. Poverty and Race Research Action Council's Sept/Oct 1998 issue contains a special insert listing PRRAC-funded research grants and Products with information on procedures and awards. PRRAC, 202-387-9887; email: info@prrac.org The Surface Transportation Policy Project's (STPP) 75-page TEA-21 User's Guide explains and interprets the complexities in the Transportation Equality Act for the 21st Century with funding charts by state and by program. STPP Publications, 1100 17th Street, NW, 10th fl., Washington, DC 20036; fax: 202-466-2247 or www.tea21.org How to Get Drug Enterprises Out of Housing, by Timothy Vance is a self-help manual for landlords and tenants published by the Citizens Housing and Planning Council, 212-286-9211; fax: 212-286-9214. A Difficult Balance: Harm Reduction Housing for People With AIDS is a series of pamphlets encompassing housing considerations published by the Southern California Institute of Architecture and others, 310-574-1123; www.sciarc.edu. Or call Office of the AIDS Coordinator Los Angeles, 213-485-6320; or AIDS Project Los Angeles, 323-993-1628. The Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Directory, scheduled for publication in early 1999, will include listings of CDFIs, resources by and for the industry, and aggregate data on the important work of CDFIs. For more information, or to order contact the CDFI Coalition, 215-923-5363; cheryln@cdfi.org Who is Financing the American Dream?, an analysis of the lending performance of financial institutions in the nation's 20 largest cities. Free to National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) members, nonprofit non-members $25, for-profit non-members $100. NCRC; 202-628-8866 Community Development Venture Capital Alliance (CDVCA) is conducting an extensive baseline study of the field of community development venture capital. For more information, contact Julia Rubin, 617-492-3858; rubin@wjh.harvard.edu |
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