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Transforming Lives and Communities: Community Organizing for YOU! is a three-volume set of workbooks designed for trainers, organizers and those seeking to advance community organizing in their communities and organizations. Published by the Center for Community Change. $40 plus $5 shipping and handling; discounts available for smaller community-based organizations and volume sales. 202-342-0519; www.communitychange.org.
Red Tape & Housing Costs: How Regulation Affects New Residential Development, by Michael I. Luger and Kenneth Temkin, examines the incidence of regulation and quantifies the actual itemized costs of excessive regulation in various New Jersey and North Carolina communities. Published by CUPR Press. $2495;192 pp. 732-932-3133 x555.
A Vision for Change: The Story of HUD’s Transformation documents how the agency rose from its “high risk” ranking by GAO in 1994 to an agency of “relevance and results.” www.hud.gov.
Developing Major Gifts: Turning Small Donors into Big Contributors, by Laura Fredricks, illustrates to community leaders, boards, and other nonprofit practitioners cost-effective fundraising techniques. Published by Aspen Publishers, Inc. www.aspenpublishers.com.
Two-year grants are available through the New Voices National Fellowship Program to small nonprofit organizations working on social and economic justice. Grants include salary, benefits, professional development and financial assistance for student loans, as well as technical assistance and computer funding. Applications:
http://newvoices.aed.org.
The Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation (MDRC) has released three new reports on the impact of welfare to work policies: The National Evaluation of Welfare-to-Work Strategies: The Experiences of Welfare Recipients Who Find Jobs, Four-Year Impacts of Ten Programs on Employment Stability and Earnings Growth, and Post-TANF Food Stamp and Medicaid Benefits: Factors That Aid or Impede Their Receipt. www.mdrc.org/area_publications_4.html.
How Welfare and Work Policies Affect Children: A Synthesis of Research by Pamela Morris, Aletha Huston, Greg Duncan, Danielle Crosby and Johannes Bos, synthesizes results from large-scale evaluations of 11 welfare and employment programs and provides evidence that some reform policies – those that simultaneously increase work and income – can improve children’s lives. www.mdrc.org.
New York City’s efforts to retain corporations to save jobs may actually have the reverse effect, according to Payoffs for Layoffs, a new report published by Center for an Urban Future. A large percentage of city retention deals have actually resulted in a reduction in city jobs.
“Urban Affordable Housing” is a new video available from the Non-Profit Housing Association of Northern California (NPH). It features several housing developments that highlight the benefits of urban affordable housing, such as neighborhood revitalization and the reduction of traffic and commute time. $15. 415-989-8160.
The National Resource Center on Homelessness and Mental Illness annual resource list, National Organizations Concerned with Mental Health, Housing, and Homelessness. 800-444-7415; nrc@prainc.com
, www.nrchmi.com
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