Publications & Services

Tools and Strategies for Improving Community Relations in the Housing Choice Voucher Program is a HUD report on conditions that precipitate community opposition to the voucher program. Available at www.huduser.org, or order by calling 800-245-2691.

Strategic Tools for Social Entrepreneurs, by J. Gregory Dees, Jed Emerson, and Peter Economy, offers a set of practical tools for putting the lessons of business entrepreneurship to work in a nonprofit organization. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 326 pp. $34.95 hardcover.

It Takes a Neighborhood: Strategies to Prevent Urban Decline is a Rockefeller Institute report on lessons from the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, and how to implement community building efforts generally. www.rockinst.org.

The Guide to Community Preventive Services, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, provides community groups, public health advocates, and policy makers with recommendations for promoting health and preventing disease, injury, disability, and premature death.

The Amherst H. Wilder Foundation has published Venture Forth!: The Essential Guide to Starting a Moneymaking Business in Your Nonprofit Organization. The book is a step-by-step guide for organizations exploring venture development. 272 pp. $30. 800-274-6024; www.wilder.org.

Energize, Inc. has published the third edition of The Volunteer Recruitment Book by Susan J. Ellis. The book offers information on attracting volunteers and practical ideas for breaking the recruitment process into manageable tasks. 144 pp. $18.95. 800-395-9800.

Shut Out From The Economic Boom: Comparing Community Organizations’ Success in the Neighborhoods Left Behind, by Heidi J. Swarts, is published by the Aspen Institute. The working paper examines four community-based organizations in St. Louis, MO and San Jose, CA from 1997 to1999. www.nonprofitresearch.org.

The Urban Institute’s Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Welfare Reform presents summary information on the welfare caseload, work and earnings, work support programs, poverty and child well-being, family structure, and population subgroups. www.urban.org.

The Institute for Community Studies’ (ICS) Spring 2002 newsletter focuses on creative options for affordable housing, and includes specific strategies and resources. www.montclair.edu/Pages/ICS/ics.html.

The Fannie Mae Foundation’s Journal of Housing Research, Vol. 12, Issue 2 contains “Geography of Housing Discrimination” by Jan Ondrich, Stephen Ross, and John Yinger. The authors use audit data from four metropolitan areas to examine how discriminatory behavior in housing varies in different locales. The report also discusses how a better understanding of geographic and other patterns of discrimination will permit better targeting of fair housing enforcement. www.fanniemaefoundation.org.

The California Reinvestment Committee has released Stolen Wealth: Inequities in California’s Subprime Mortgage Market, an extensive study of predatory lending abuses in the state. The report is available to individuals and nonprofit organizations for $20, and $50 to businesses. 415-864-3980.

Valuing America’s First Suburbs: A Policy Agenda for Older Suburbs in the Midwest, by Robert Puentes and Myron Orfield, is published by The Brookings Institution’s Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. The report describes the experiences and conditions of older suburbs, identifies federal and state polices that have the greatest impact on them, and outlines an agenda for policy reform. www.brookings.edu/urban.

Welfare to Work: What Have We Learned, published by the Joyce Foundation, is a comprehensive look at state efforts to move welfare recipients into the workforce during the first five years of the 1996 welfare reform act. 312-782-2464; www.joycefdn.org.