What If Everyone Had a Job? By Richard Taub
The true work of community development should be job creation. Everything else, the author contends, is palliative at best.

Promoting Job Opportunities By David Scheie
Community-based organizations use a variety of strategies to create jobs

Moving Toward the Market By Jed Emerson
Though the risks are substantial, creating for-profit businesses offers new opportunities for nonprofit groups and low-income people.

Housing-led Economic Development By Bennett Hecht
Nonprofit multi-family housing managers can use their buildings to help create jobs and businesses for residents.

Program-Related Investments By Loren Renz
Funders and organizations have increasingly used this method of funding housing and community development.

Creating Stakeholders with Individual Development Accounts By Robert O. Zdenek
IDAs offer opportunities for low-income people to build assets for homeownership, education, and small business creation.

One Paycheck Away By Barbara Duffield
After an injury on the job, a New Jersey family found themselves losing their home. They travel a long and frustrating road back to permanent housing and better-paying employment.