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The Ricanne Hadrian Initiative for Community Organizing has published the Journal of Community Power Building: Reflections from Community Development Leaders and Practitioners, which presents articles exploring how real people in real situations experience the complicated and challenging process of building community and collective power. Throughout the Journal are examples of people’s struggle with the emotional contradictions of understanding, building and using power. See www.macdc.org, under Resources, Publications.
City Lights Foundation has published San Francisco: The Political Edge, edited by Chris Carlsson. The book offers reflections of 25 San Francisco activists and writers on elections, war, urban hell and transformational politics. www.citylights.com/foundation.html.
A new study by the Chicago Area Fair Housing Alliance, “Mapping the Location of Housing Choice Vouchers,” found that the federal Housing Choice Voucher program reinforces historic patterns of racial and economic segregation in the Chicago metropolitan region. www.cafha.org.
The Children’s Defense Fund published “Where is America Going? An Action Guide.” It includes state-by-state snapshots on: child poverty; children’s health insurance coverage; child care, Head Start and pre-kindergarten enrollment; public education; youth at risk; firearm deaths of children and teens; and more. www.cdfactioncouncil.org.
In her paper, “The Education and Liberation of the Poor in Community Organizing: The Personal Growth and Transformation of Leaders in the Anti-Displacement Project,” Lindsey P. Walker-Estrada talks about how in our determination to win our community battles, we often neglect to recognize how the organizing process can affect community members. http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/papers.htm.
Credit to the Community: Community Reinvestment and Fair Lending Policy in the U.S., by Dan Immergluck offers a policy history of fair lending laws and CRA. It discusses the history of discrimination and redlining in mortgage and small business markets, including current problems and trends. The book places fair lending and CRA policies in the historical context of U.S. policy regarding financial markets and the support of financial institutions. 800-541-6563.
AWARDS
Rural Development Leadership Network is offering academic degree programs to community leaders that will assist them in strengthening practical skills, knowledge and credentials while remaining involved in community development work. Deadline: November 15. 212-777-9137. www.ruraldevelopment.org.
The Alston/Bannerman Fellowship Program will award its 17th annual grants in 2004. The program is committed to advancing progressive social change by helping to sustain long-time activists of color. It honors those who have devoted their lives to helping communities organize. Each year, 10 fellows receive $15,000 to take sabbaticals for three months or more, using their freedom to engage in community activism and strengthen their ability to contribute to social change. Deadline: December 1. www.alstonbannerman.org.
Norman Foundation, Inc. supports efforts that promote economic justice and development through community organizing; work to prevent the disposal of toxics in communities, and to link environmental issues with economic and social justice; and promote civil rights by fighting discrimination and violence and working for equity. The deadline for letters of inquiry and/or applications for environmental justice support is December 1; for economic justice, March 15; and for civil rights, July 15. Send E-mail. www.normanfdn.org/guidelines.html.
The Community Development Institute (CDI) is sponsoring APA/Leadership Plenty, a leadership development program for mid-level professionals in community development and urban planning. Based on a national model developed by the Pew Partnership for Civic Change and adapted in conjunction with the American Planning Association, APA/Leadership Plenty is the only leadership development program that combines training and personal coaching. The application and program information can be downloaded from the CDI Web site. The application deadline has been extended to December 10 and early applications will get special consideration. If you have any questions, please contact Leo Vazquez at 732-932-3822 X711 or Stephen Finn at 732-932-3133 X534.
The Rudy Bruner Award for Urban Excellence is given to urban places that demonstrate the successful integration of effective process, meaningful values and good design. Winners are distinguished by their social, economic and contextual contributions to the urban environment. The RBA awards one Gold Medal of $50,000 and four Silver Medals of $10,000 each. Deadline is December 13. Download the application from www.brunerfoundation.org.
Grants.gov contains information on more than 800 available grant programs. It is a collaborative effort by Health and Human Services, and the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Homeland Security, Housing and Urban Development, Justice, Labor and Transportation, and the National Science Foundation.
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