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A study by Gregory Watson and Frederick Eggers, "Rental Market Dynamics: Is Affordable Housing for the Poor an Endangered Species?" analyzes rental market data between 1995 and 1999 in six metropolitan areas: Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia and Northern New Jersey. The authors track the sources of new rental housing, the reasons for its loss and changes in affordability of the existing rental housing stock.
Your Field Guide to Community Building is available from the Heartland Center for Leadership Development. The Guide covers problem-solving and troubleshooting techniques for community developers. It includes a CD of resources and an interactive Web site. $18.50. 402-474-7667. www.heartlandfieldguide.info.
Strategic Restructuring for Nonprofit Organizations: Mergers, Integrations, and Alliances, by Amelia Kohm and David La Piana is based on the largest study to date of nonprofit consolidations. It finds that nonprofit organizations are responding to tightening budgets in a variety of innovative ways, including partial and full-scale mergers, but sometimes at the cost of time and staff morale. E-mail Flora Lazar or call 773-256-5212. Greenwood Publishing Group, 800-225-5800, www.greenwood.com.
Pew Partnership has released What Works III: What It Will Take, a practical guide for creating and enhancing programs to meet critical community needs. www.pew-partnership.org.
Illinois Poverty Summit’s 2004 Report on Illinois Poverty: An Analysis of Rural Poverty highlights several key findings on rural poverty levels and experiences statewide, with a specific focus on Southern and Southwest regions. E-mail Amy Rynell or call 773-728-5960 X274. www.heartlandalliance.org.
The Economic Research Service has posted data and analysis of rural Americans’ income, poverty and welfare online.
The Guide to Fundraising for Rural Housing Nonprofits: Strategies for Raising Operating Funds, by the Housing Assistance Council, is available for free at www.ruralhome.org. Call 202-842-8600 or e-mail.
The National Low Income Housing Coalition’s latest report, America’s Neighbors: The Affordable Housing Crisis and the People it Affects, finds that 95 million people in the US have housing problems, nearly 65 million (24 percent of the population) of whom are low income. The report compares the number of those affected by housing problems to data noting the number of those affected by food insecurity and lack of healthcare. www.nlihc.org.
Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives: A review of the literature, by Susan Saegert and Lymari Benitez was prepared for the Taconic Foundation. A PDF of the report can be downloaded for free.
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The Building and Social Housing Foundation is seeking projects for its 2004 Annual World Habitat Awards. Project focus should be on sustainable futures for residents and provide practical, imaginative solutions to current housing problems. Deadline: June 1. www.bshf.org.
Below-market rate loans are available through FHLBank Atlanta’s EDGE program for projects that improve communities, create jobs or provide services. Deadline: July 1. Contact Kris Lefever (AL, WA, MD and VA), 800-536-9650 X8026 or Lisa Robinson (FL, GA, NC and SC), 800-536-9650 X8576. www.fhlbatl.com.
Cisco Systems, with TechSoup, invites nonprofit organizations to apply for donations of networking solutions software. Organizations will receive equipment and hardware to create a functioning network as well as a free one-year technical support contract. Six Internet Starter Kits and other networking components will also be donated. Open deadline. www.techsoup.org.
The Draper Richards Foundation provides $100,000 a year for three years to social entrepreneurs interested in starting nonprofit organizations whose projects will demonstrate innovative ways to solve existing social problems. The foundation awards four fellowships a year and offers strategic and organizational assistance in addition to financial support. Open deadline. www.draperrichards.org.
The Public Welfare Foundation makes grants in the areas of community and economic development, criminal justice, disadvantaged elderly and youth, environment, health, human rights, population and technology assistance. Grants range from $25,000 to $50,000. Open deadline. www.publicwelfare.org.
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