• Struggling in the Crescent City By restoring affordable housing in New Orleans, grassroots groups are challenging an unspoken credo: If you were poor before the storm, you don’t deserve recovery resources; if you had assets, you do. (Fall 2007, #151)
• The Purchase of a Lifetime When luxury condo developers starting buying up properties on W Street in D.C.,
  the low-income tenants who already lived there decided to get in the game. (Spring 2007, #149)
• A Merger of Equals Two mature Cincinnati CDCs found that by merging they created an organization greater than the sum of its parts and ready to guide its community towards equitable revitalization. (Winter 2006, #148)
• A National Spotlight on Local Capacity In the wake of Katrina's devastation, intermediaries are creating new collaborations. But the Gulf Coast's limited community development capacity may minimize their results. (Spring 2006, #145)
• The Revolution Will Not Be Grant Funded CDCs should look to the market as a way to support themselves financially. (Sept/Oct 2005, #143)
• Life After Lockup When prisoners are released, they often return to their old communities and their old way of life. But some community groups are providing an alternative by offering shelter, life skills and job training in a new and stable environment. (Jan/Feb 2005, #139)
• Housing Ex-Offenders Local nonprofits are designing programs to help ex-offenders transition back into the community. In the process they are facing many challenges – from community and government objections to funding and zoning limitations. One program in New York has emerged as a beacon of success. (Jan/Feb 2005, #139)
• Building a Community-University Partnership How the collaboration between Newark’s New Community Corporation and Rutgers University – a team of students working on a single project – brought benefits to both. (Jan/Feb 2005, #139)
• Breaking Ground This small HUD program may be promising more than it can deliver to a handful of low-income tenants. (Sep/Oct 2004, #137)
• Family Self-Sufficiency Overlooked and underutilized, this federal program can bring significant assets to public and subsidized housing residents. It will take new community partnerships for FSS to live up to its full potential. (Sep/Oct 2004, #137)
• NO Vote, NO Voice: Building Electoral Power for Nov. 2 and Beyond Millions of new voters have been registered in the past year, many by community-based organizations. But the work of civic empowerment goes far beyond one election. (Sep/Oct 2004, #137)
• Real Solution in Real Time Ten CDCs have built a "community of practice" to keep the conversation, information and funding assistance flowing after the three-year foundation initiative that brought them together came to an end. (Jan/Feb 2004, #133)
• Bootstrap Philanthropy Learn how one New York-based CDC lifted reduced its dependency on public and private funding by becoming fiscally self-sufficient. (Jul/Aug 2003, #130)
• Learning From Adversity The lessons learned from CDC failures may help your organization to succeed. (May/Jun 2003, #129)
• Anatomy of a Merger Follow the story of two Nashua, NH housing organizations that decided to stop competing for funding and merge into a single organization. (May/Jun 2003, #129)
• Can This Collaboration Be Saved? Checkpoints that can help you recognize the strengths and weaknesses of a partnership. (May/Jun 2003, #129)
• Built to Last It’s tougher than ever to lead a CDC. But mastering three management areas can help you do more for your community. (May/Jun 2002, #123)
• So You Want to Be a Developer... A small community organization that decides to go into housing development faces a host of challenges. Here’s how one Chicago group is taking it one day – and one building – at a time. (Jan/Feb 2002, #121)
  
• Not By Faith Alone Congregations across the country are starting community development corporations. But are they really prepared? What should they ask themselves before jumping in? (Jan/Feb 2001, #115)
• Stakeholder Community Development For community development corporations (CDCs) to exercise true community-based leadership they need to recognize - and develop - the value of all their stakeholders, including the board, staff, community members, and resource providers. (Nov/Dec 2000, #114)
• Creating an Enduring Organization As CDCs mature they require different kinds of leadership - and more conscious investment in leadership development. (Nov/Dec 2000, #114)
• Hearts on Fire What causes the only-too-common plague of organizer burnout? And what can organizations do to keep the fire alive? (Sep/Oct 2000, #113)
• Building Effective Partnerships Formal structure helps empower individuals and organizations in two innovative Portland, Oregon, collaborations.
  (May/Jun 1999, #105)
• Charting a New Future California CDCs Learn the Value of Collaboration
  (May/Jun 1999, #105)
• After the Fall The collapse of Eastside Community Investments in Indianapolis, one of the nation’s most admired and innovative CDCs, sent a shock through the profession. The lessons learned from ECI’s fall may prevent future failures. (Mar/Apr 1999, #104)
• The 8 Habits of Highly Effective CDCs (Mar/Apr 1999, #104)
• Boosting the Capacity of CDCs The $250 million National Community Development Initiative shows the value of core operating support, technical assistance, and performance standards for CDCs. (Mar/Apr 1999, #104)
• CDCs, Social Capital, and Housing Quality If community revitalization is a goal of affordable housing development, measurements of a successful project must include building social capital as well as financial stability. (Mar/Apr 1999, #104)
• Neighborhood Assistance programs State-based tax credits help CDCs and corporations form long-term partnerships for community revitalization. (Jan/Feb 1997, #91)
• Caveat Emptor Look before you leap is the wise warning for CDCs considering partnering with a for-profit housing developer. (Jan/Feb 1997, #91)
• Moving Towards the Market Though the risks are substantial, creating for-profit businesses offers new opportunities for nonprofit groups and low-income people. (Sep/Oct 1996, #89)
• Citywide CDCs Two mature community development organizations have found a way to profit from their development experience by offering services to understaffed CDCs. (May/Jun 1996, #87)
• Community Building And Community Organizing: Creating Effective Models How community development organizations can enhance their effectiveness by incorporating organizing into their agendas. (Jan/Feb 1996, #85)
• Reviews of Management Books (May/Jun 1995, #81)
• Effective Community Development and Getting the Most from Technical Assistance Effective community development takes more than learning a set of skills. It also takes vision and capacity. In these two articles, the elements of a successful community based organization are reviewed and guidelines for getting everything you can from TA are offered. (Jul/Aug 1994, #76)

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