Publications & Services

From the Ground Up, by Frances Kunreuther and Carol Chetkovich, looks at how social-change organizations address challenges related to leadership and staff development, decision-making and collaboration. www.buildingmovement.org

Progressive Agenda for State Housing Policy 2007, a report from the Center for Policy Alternatives, recommends 10 cost-effective policies that states can adopt to address the affordable-housing crisis for low-income families spending more than half their income on housing. www.stateaction.org

The spring issue of the National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy’s newsletter, Responsive Philanthropy, highlights an often-overlooked subject, rural philanthropy. www.ncrp.org

The Corporation for Supportive Housing’s Southern New England Program has developed the Small Towns Toolkit, an online resource for creating supportive housing in suburban and small towns. Topics range from building community support to legal issues and supportive housing finance. www.csh.org/ctsmalltowns

Fieldstone Alliance published Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit, by Peter Brinckerhoff, which looks at the differing perspectives and expectations of the five generations that influence how nonprofits and foundations function today: The Greatest Generation, (born 1901-1925); The Silent Generation (born 1926-1944); The Boomers (born 1945-1962); GenX (born 1963-1980); and Gen@ (born 1981-2002). www.FieldstoneAlliance.org

The Center for Budget and Policy Priorities released The Effects of the Federal Budget Squeeze On Low-Income Housing Assistance. The report makes the case that misplaced federal budget priorities have weakened important low-income housing programs and are threatening to undermine the preservation of the federally assisted housing stock and the expansion of affordable-housing opportunities. www.cbpp.org/2-1-07hous2.htm

The Urban Institute and the Center for What Works developed a framework to help standardize approaches to nonprofit performance measurement. Housing is one of 14 program areas covered. www.urban.org/center/cnp/projects/outcomeindicators.cfm

A report by nonprofit consultants Brody Weiser Burns, Small Business Development Strategies: Practices to Promote Success among Low-Income Entrepreneurs, addresses how nonprofit organizations can increase jobs and income among low-income community residents. www.brodyweiser.com/whatsnew.php

Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) launched DiversityData.org, a Web site that allows users to create customized maps, profiles and rankings of U.S. metropolitan areas by comparing quality-of-life indicators across racial and ethnic groups. The indicators are housing and economic opportunities, population diversity, residential integration, education, physical environment and health. HSPH also released Children Left Behind: How Metropolitan Areas are Failing America’s Children, which reports that in the 100 largest U.S. cities, black and Hispanic children fall behind white and Asian children on nearly every indicator. http://diversitydata.sph.harvard.edu/children_left_behind_final_report.pdf

AWARDS

The Urban Land Institute is accepting nominations for the 2007 J.C. Nichols Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development. The annual $100,000 prize recognizes individuals who make a distinguished contribution to community-building. Deadline: May 1. ulinicholsprize@uli.org, www.uli.org

The MetLife Foundation and Enterprise Community Partners are seeking applications for the 2007 MetLife Foundation Awards for Excellence in Affordable Housing. Awards are presented in two categories: Supportive Housing and Property and Asset Management. First-place winners receive a $35,000 grant, second-place winners receive $15,000 and third-place winners receive $10,000. Deadline: May 4. www.enterprisecommunity.org

Scholarship Opportunity: Southern New Hampshire University’s School of Community Economic Development is offering tuition reduction to employees of NeighborWorks America network member organizations and NeighborWorks Training Institute faculty. Deadline June 30. Contact Anthony Poore, a.poore@snhu.edu, or 603-668-2211.