Member & Partner Publications
Criteria for NFG Member and Partner Publications
- Publications must be authored/published or funded by a member organization or staff of a member organization.
- The content must fall into at least one of the interest areas of NFG (community development, economic development, community organizing, community/labor issues, social justice, housing, homelessness, employment, income security, or transportation).
Please send publications to nfg@nfg.org in PDF or Microsoft Word format. All submissions are subject to review.
| (July, 2011)
Healthy Youth/Healthy Regions | Sierra Health
Foundation
The Sierra Health
Foundation commissioned a two-year study to
examine youth health and well-being on a
regional scale and across multiple
issues. Conducted by the UC
Davis Center for Regional Change, with
additional funding from The California
Endowment, the study found that the Sacramento
Region can only prosper and ultimately grow
into its full potential in future years if it
dramatically improves the education, health,
civic participation and job opportunities for
the region's young people. |
(June, 2011) CDFI Study | Mary
Reynolds Babcock Foundation
The Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation recently released a new study on the current challenges and opportunities facing Community Development Financial Institutions (CFDIs). Titled, "Community Development Financial Institutions: A Study on Growth and Sustainability", this report provides evidence of the viability of continued philanthropic investment in CDFIs.
| (June, 2011) Why Place & Race Matter |
The California Endowment
The California Endowment recently released a report titled, "Why Place & Race Matter" in collaboration with PolicyLink. This report builds off long-standing research showing that life outcomes can be dramatically improved by changing the economic, social, and physical environments we live in.
| (May, 2011) Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
and Southern Bancorp Share Lessons Learned |
Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation (WRF) released a report on May 11, 2011, recognizing its 25-year partnership with Southern Bancorp (Southern) and celebrating Southern's successes over its history. "Southern Bancorp: Revitalizing the Rural South" candidly explores the evolution of Southern's innovative rural community development model and the impact it has had in Arkansas and Mississippi. It describes the opportunities and challenges unique to a rural Community Development Finance Institution and exposes the complexity of rebuilding distressed communities. Furthermore, it reviews the lessons learned through the longstanding grantee relationship between WRF and Southern.
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(September, 2010) Investing in Community Land
Trusts - A Conversation with CLT Funders |
National Housing Institute
Over the past four decades, the community land trust movement has grown steadily in the US. Today there are approximately 240 CLTs in 45 states and DC. Their growth has accelerated in the past few years as CLTs have become embraced by community builders, organizers, advocates of affordable housing, asset building, smart growth and transit oriented development, local governments and the philanthropic community. Especially important has been the philanthropic community whose initial and ongoing support has made much of this growth possible. Why have funders embraced CLTs? This new report investigates this question.
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(October, 2009) What Should We Do? A Report to
the Board of Directors of the Needmor
Fund
In the Fall of 2009, Needmor asked Spence Limbocker, former Director of the Neighborhood Funders' Group, to survey all of Needmor's current grantees and some key leaders in philanthropy and community organizing to help us answer the question, "What Should We Do"? In the wake of financial uncertainty and shrinking endowment resources, we asked their advice as we plan for the future.
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(August, 2005) Community Development A Guide
for Grantmakers - William and Flora Hewlett
Foundation
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(2004) From Exclusion to Inclusion -
Progressive Technology Project
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(March, 2002) Organizing for Change Stories of
Success by Judy Hertz
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(November, 2000) Speaking For Themselves - The
Wilder Research Center
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(October, 2000) Our Basic Dream - The
Foundation for Child Development
| (April, 2000) The Workforce (Dis)Investment
Act Interim Report
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(April, 2000) Research on Barriers and
Opportunities for Increasing Leadership - The
Hyams Foundation