Resources

Organizations

Smart Growth America (www.smartgrowthamerica.com) is a broad based, nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and makes communities more livable. A Smart Growth America member, the National Neighborhood Coalition, published Smart Growth, Better Neighborhoods: Communities Leading the Way, a study examining the ill effects of unchecked growth, which includes strategies for community involvement in smart growth and development. Order by calling 202-408-8553 or at www.neighborhoodcoalition.org.

The Grassroots Innovative Policy Project (GRIPP) has new tools available to help local governments develop equity impact reports, a ready-to-use model TANF plan for state governments, and papers and audio from its Race Rules conference on its website at www.arc.org/gripp.

Welfare Reform Updates

Unemployment Insurance and Welfare Recipients: What Happens When the Recession Comes? is a 7-page brief by Harry Holzer from the Urban Institute. The article includes possible public policy responses to protect workers who may lose their jobs and not be eligible for unemployment insurance. Go to http://newfederalism.urban.org/pdf/anf_a46.pdf.

The LINC Project has a new TANF Reauthorization Resource Page, which includes articles on reauthorization, links to groups working on the issue, and a calendar of events. You may view the page at www.lincproject.org/tanf.

The monthly National Workforce Policy Newsletter from the Annie E. Casey Foundation has updates on policy action surrounding workforce access, retention, and advancement. To subscribe, email calexander@burnesscommunications.com. Back issues are available online at www.aecf.org/jobsinitiative.

Challenges to Equality: Poverty and Race in America, ed. Chester Hartman, with a foreword by Congressman John Lewis, is a just-published 336-page collection of the leading symposia and articles from the bimonthly newsletter journal of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council (PRRAC). $26.95+$3.50 shipping and handling from PRRAC, 3000 Connecticut Ave., NW, #200, Washington, DC 20008.

Contingent Workers: Fight for Fairness features the untold story of contingent worker organizing in dozens of communities around the U.S. Released by the National Alliance for Fair Employment, the report details how the New Economy is shortchanging workers in contingent jobs and the new movement that is fighting back. Available from the Alliance at www.fairjobs.org or by calling 617-338-9996.

The Development Training Institute (DTI) recently released Timeline: The History of Community Development Policy in the United States. Narrated by DTI President Joe McNeely, the video examines the history of community development and neighborhood revitalization in the U.S. since 1900. A video package including discussion and viewers' guide and interactive exercises is $39.95. Ordering information is available online at www.dtinational.org.

Papers prepared for the February 2001 The New World of Welfare: An Agenda for Reauthorization and Beyond conference sponsored by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan and funded by the Annie E. Casey and Charles Stewart Mott Foundations are available online at www.fordschool.umich.edu/conferences/final.htm.

Publications

The subject of leadership is the focus of the November/December 2000 issue of Shelterforce. Several excellent articles discuss the role of community residents and organizations in building and sustaining leadership. The issue also contains a comprehensive Leadership Training Directory, listing regional and national organizations involved in leadership development and leadership enhancement training. 973-678-9060; www.nhi.org.

Kudos

Winnie Chu, who is retiring after more than 10 years as Vice President of Programs at Community Foundation Silicon Valley, received the Northern California Regional Chapter of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy's Distinguished Grantmaker Award.

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