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The Beyond Gentrification Toolkit is a new resource from PolicyLink. The Web-based tool for equitable development helps residents plan for and steer new investments to their communities. The toolkit features strategies to help people remain in their neighborhoods, drawing from the best practices and creative policy work of culturally diverse communities across the country. The toolkit is online at www.policylink.org/gentrification/home.asp.

The Foundation Center has released The PRI Directory: Charitable Loans and Other Program-Related Investments. According to the report, U.S. foundations' giving to Program-Related Investments (PRIs) grew from $147 million in 1997 to $266 million in 1999. The growth in financing was not accompanied by a growth in the number of PRI providers. The proportion of PRI support earmarked for housing has declined since 1993-1994, dropping from 18 percent to 9 percent in 1998-1999.The PRI Directory includes contact and background information on foundation PRI interests and an analysis by Loren Renz of 1998-1999 trends and statistics. Order the directory by calling the Foundation Center's toll-free number, 1-800-424-9836 or online at www.fdncenter.org.

The Brookings Institution has a number of new resources and reports available. Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices by Maureen Kennedy and Paul Leonard describes gentrification issues and then shows the way they have played out in Atlanta, Cleveland, Washington, DC, and the San Francisco Bay area. A Web-based journal, Capital Ideas, is dedicated to new ideas about neighborhood reinvestment and wealth creation. It will be edited by Bruce Katz, director of the Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy, and Nicolas Retsinas, director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University. For more information, go to www.brookings.edu/urban or www.gsd.harvard.edu/jcenter.

Youth Violence in Urban Communities is a brief report, which includes a review of research findings, promising ideas and interventions to decrease youth violence and references from the Urban Seminar Series on Children's Health and Safety. For more information on the report and the Urban Health Initiative, go to its Web site at www.urbanhealth.org.

New Skills for a New Economy: Adult Education's Role in Sustaining Economic Growth and Expanding Opportunity is a report from the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth. The full report is available at www.massinc.org.

A Community Builder's Tool Kit is a booklet from the Institute for Democratic Renewal and Project Change Anti-Racism Initiative that describes 15 tools for creating healthy, productive interracial/multicultural communities. Copies cost $150 each and can be ordered by phone at 909-607-1473 or online at www.race-democracy.org.

Education and Community Building: Connecting Two Worlds is a report from the Institute for Educational Leadership. Many of the participants in the dialogue on community building and education reform that went into the report have participated in NFG conferences and programs. Copies of the report are available for $9 by calling 202-822-8405 or online at www.iel.org.

The Welfare Information Network (WIN) has a Web site devoted solely to information about the next stage of the welfare reform debate, workforce development and other income security issues. At www.welfareinfo.org/tanf_reauhtorization.htm, the Reauthorization Web site covers major policy issues, provides basic information resources about meetings, events and expected release dates of selected publications, and is developing a series of brief publications that will identify and discuss issues that are not being addressed elsewhere. WIN's home page, www.welfareinfo.org, has an array of other timely and useful resources including a rural update.

A Compliance-Oriented Approach to Sanctions in State and County TANF Programs by Heidi Goldberg summarizes a longer paper on the use of sanctions and their consequences for families, and examines strategies that some states and counties are using to assist families to improve family outcomes. Released by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, it is available online at www.cbb.org/3-28-01tanf.pdf.

IDA State Policy Guide: Advancing Public Policies in Support of Individual Development Accounts is a new guide by Karen Edwards of The Center for Social Development and Carl Rist of the Corporation for Enterprise Development. It includes the latest information on successful legislative strategies, IDA bill language, state-by-state summaries of IDA activity and other resources. For more information email cfed@cfed.org.

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