Community Development Corporations (CDCs)

ACORN
88 3rd Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11217
T 718-246-7900
F 718-246-7939
natexdirect@acorn.org
www.acorn.org
ACORN is a national grassroots organization that seeks to empower low-income communities and individuals by working toward economic and social justice on the local and national levels through community organizing.

CENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE
1000 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20007
T 202-342-0519
info@communitychange.org
www.communitychange.org
The Center for Community Change (CCC) provides research, technical assistance, networking, and coalition building in an effort to support grassroots organizations that foster community development.

COMMITTEE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
2000 L St., NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-296-5860
F 202-223-0776
info@ced.org
www.ced.org
The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is a nonpartisan organization that provides business and education leaders with research and policy recommendations on economic and social issues such as budget reform, school reform, and global markets.

COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP
1140 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 1210
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-265-7546
F 202-265-8850
info@communityactionpartnership.com
www.communityactionpartnership.com
The Community Action Partnership was established in 1971 as the National Association of Community Action Agencies (NACAA) and is the national organization representing the interests of the 1,000 Community Action Agencies, which were established under the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to fight America's War on Poverty. Community Action Agencies help people to help themselves in achieving self-sufficiency. Community Action Agencies play a variety of roles, ranging from providing social services (such as running Head Start programs) to direct participation in asset building, business lending, and housing development.

COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM
Center for Urban Affairs
Michigan State University
1801 West Main St.
Lansing, MI 48915-1097
T 517-353-9555
F 517-484-0068
www.msu.edu/~cua
The Community and Economic Development Program at Michigan State University provides research, training, and technical assistance to community-based organizations throughout Michigan. Among other activities, CEDP has developed the Community Income and Expenditure Model, which allows communities to track income and expenditure flows.

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH CENTER
Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy
New School for Social Research
72 Fifth Ave., 7th Floor
New York, NY 10011
T 212-229-5311 x1609
F 212-229-5904
oliverom@newschool.edu
www.newschool.edu/milano/cdrc
The Community Development Research Center provides research, analysis, evaluation, and publications about community revitalizing practices and policies and their effect on urban neighborhoods. Topics evaluated include local and federal policies, as well as a number of studies on community development corporations.

ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS
10227 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500
Columbia, MD 21044
T 410-964-1230
F 410-964-1918
www.enterprisecommunity.org
Enterprise Community Partners (formerly The Enterprise Foundation) is a nonprofit community development and housing organization that works through a national network of more than 1,200 organizations to promote employment and housing for low-income individuals and neighborhoods. To date, Enterprise has raised and invested $6 billion in equity, grants and loan and is currently investing in communities at a rate of close to $1 billion a year.

GREAT CITIES INSTITUTE
University of Illinois at Chicago
412 South Peoria Street, Suite 400
Chicago, IL 60607
T 312-996-8700
F 312-996-8933
gcities@uic.edu
www.uic.edu/cuppa/gci
The Great Cities Institute is a program of the University of Illinois at Chicago. GCI is an interdisciplinary research program designed to disseminate information on urban development. Areas of research focus include metropolitan sustainability and community/human development.

HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK
160 State Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02109
T 617-720-1999
F 617-720-3939
info@housingpartnership.net
www.housingpartnership.net
Founded in 1990, the Network has grown to have 94 members, all of which are mature nonprofit housing partnerships with strong track records in development, financing, and management. Collectively, they have developed or financed more than 500,000 affordable homes, helped lower-income families improve and repair 175,000 homes, and served as homeownership counselors to 400,000 families.

HIGHLANDER CENTER
1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820
T 865-933-3443
F 865-933-3424
hrec@highlandercenter.org
www.thehighlandercenter.org
The Highlander Center provides resources and assistance, including research, education, and workshops to community organizations struggling with a variety of problems, economic and social, throughout Appalachia and the South.

HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT (HUD), US DEPARTMENT OF
P.O. Box 23268
Washington, DC 20026
T 800-245-2691
www.huduser.org
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)'s Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R) sponsors HUD USER, an information service that provides data, research reports, and policy analysis relating to issues of housing and community development.

INDUSTRIAL AREAS FOUNDATION
220 West Kinzie St., 5th Floor
Chicago, IL 60610
T 312-245-9211
F 312-245-9744
www.industrialareasfoundation.org
The Industrial Areas Foundation was built on the principles and practices of legendary community activist Saul Alinsky. The IAF provides progressive leadership training in organizing and coalition building with faith-based, private, public, and non-profit institutions.

INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY (ICIC)
727 Atlantic Ave., Suite 600
Boston, MA 02111
T 617-292-2363
F 617-292-2380
initiative@icic.org
www.icic.org
Founded in 1994 by Harvard Business School Professor Michael Porter, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City works to promote sustainable inner city economic development, focused on encouraging capital reinvestment by private investors.

LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION
773 3rd Ave, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10017
T 212-455-9800
F 212-682-5929
www.lisc.org
The Local Initiatives Support Coalition works to foster the growth and development of Community Development Corporations (CDCs) with public, private, and non-profit organizations by helping to channel grants and technical support to some of the nation's most distressed areas.

LIVING CITIES
95 West 125th Street
New York, NY 10027
T 646-442-2200
www.livingcities.org
Living Cities provides financial and technical support to nonprofit CDCs engaged in improving economically distressed inner city neighborhoods. It creates a mechanism through which major corporations, foundations and federal government can invest in the revitalization of urban neighborhoods.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONS
1020 16th St. NW, Suite 305
Washington, D.C. 20036
T 202-659-7701
info@naceda.org
www.naceda.org
Founded in March 2007, NACEDA brings together 15 state associations of community development corporations (CDCs), serving as a new national organization for the CDC movement. Goals of the new association include advocating for public policy to support community economic development at the federal level, providing peer-to-peer support and development for state association staff, and supporting the development of new and emerging state associations.

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF LA RAZA
1111 19th Street, Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-785-1670
www.nclr.org
The National Council of La Raza, a leading U.S. civil rights organization working with the United States' growing Latino/a community, has become an increasingly important participant in community economic development, helping over 3,000 families become homeowners a year.

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
51 East 42nd St.
New York, NY 10017
T 212-682-1106
F 212-573-6118
www.nationaldevelopmentcouncil.org
The National Development Council is a nonprofit organization that provides training and development services to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors to design economic development and affordable housing programs throughout the country.

NATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND LAW CENTER
2201 Broadway, Suite 815
Oakland, CA 94612
T 510-251-2600
F 510-251-0600
www.nedlc.org
The National Economic Development and Law Center (NEDLC) is a resource organization dedicated to addressing the needs of low-income persons. NEDLC's three branches focus on the needs of children and families, jobs and income, and community infrastructure. Through collaborations with outside organizations, NEDLC provides both legal and economic research and resources for those local groups working for the economic and social advancement of their respective communities.

NATIONAL HOUSING CONFERENCE
1801 K Street, NW, Suite M-100
Washington, DC 20006-1301
T 202-466-2121
F 202-466-2122
www.nhc.org
For more than 75 years, the nonprofit National Housing Conference (NHC) has served as a public policy and affordable housing advocacy organization. NHC's nonprofit research affiliate, the Center for Housing Policy works to broaden understanding of America's affordable housing challenges and examines the impact of policies and programs developed to address these needs.

NATIONAL HOUSING INSTITUTE/SHELTERFORCE
60 South Fullerton Avenue
Suite 206
Montclair, NJ 07042
T: 973-509-1600
F: 973-509-1602
www.nhi.org
The National Housing Institute is a nonprofit organization that examines the issues affecting affordable housing and community development practitioners. The Institute publishes the magazine Shelterforce, a leading community development journal.

NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST
60 South Fullerton Avenue
Suite 206
Montclair, NJ 07042
T: 973-509-1600
F: 973-509-1602
www.nhi.org
The National Housing Trust (NHT) was founded in 1986 to create policies and practices that further the preservation of affordable apartments. Over the past 10 years, NHT has helped preserve nearly 12,000 HUD insured apartments, utilizing over $750 million in financing. Through a joint venture with Enterprise Community Partners, NHT/Enterprise, the Trust has also directly purchased, renovated and kept affordable properties in Illinois, Texas, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Washington D.C. In addition, the Trust manages a community development fund, which, since 1999, has provided over $5.1 million in predevelopment and bridge loan financing, supporting private investment of over $280 million and helping preserve more than 3,600 units of affordable housing in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia and Washington D.C.

NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION
1012 14th Street, NW, Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
T 202-662-1530
F 202-393-1973
www.nlihc.org
The National Low Income Housing Coalition is a coalition of affordable housing advocates that is leading the campaign for the creation of a National Income Housing Trust Fund. In addition, the coalition does considerable public education, research, and policy advocacy on fair housing, homelessness, and rural housing issues.

NATIONAL NEIGHBORHOOD COALITION
1221 Connecticut Ave., NW, 2nd Floor
Washington, DC 20036
T 202-429-0790
www.neighborhoodcoalition.org
The National Neighborhood Coalition seeks to improve communication between national and local community leaders to develop solutions that better address low-income human and neighborhood needs.

NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION (NRC)
1325 G St., NW, Suite 800
Washington, DC 20005
T 202-220-2300
F 202-376-2600
www.nw.org
The Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation is a nonprofit organization that builds and supports networks of residents and public, private, and nonprofit sector organizations to revitalize declining neighborhoods.

PRATT INSTITUTE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
379 DeKalb Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11205
T 718-636-3486
www.picced.org
The Pratt Institute works with professionals, academics, and students interested in achieving ecological sustainability and economic and social justice through responsible rural and urban planning policies. Its web site also hosts the CDC Oral History Project, which provides capsule summaries of over a dozen exemplary community development corporations.

POLICYLINK.ORG
101 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
T 510-663-2233
F 510-663-9684
info@policylink.org
www.policylink.org
PolicyLink is an online resource promoting innovative community-based efforts to promote more equitable regional economic development. PolicyLink provides resources and information organized around the four core themes of regions, the economy, technology and democracy, with the aim of fostering strengthened relationships among nonprofits, activist groups, and others engaged in regional development issues.

RURAL LISC
1825 K Street, NW, Suite 1100
Washington, D.C. 20006
T 202-739-9283
F 202-785-8030
info@ruralisc.org
www.ruralisc.org
Rural LISC seeks to build the capacity of resident-led rural community development corporations, increase their production and impact, demonstrate the value of investing in and through rural community development corporations, and make the resource and policy environment more supportive of their work.

RURAL POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
214 Middlebush Hall
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
T 573-882-0316
lchristopher@rupri.org
www.rupri.org
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) conducts research and facilitates public dialogue with a focus on the effects of policy on rural areas. RUPRI involves researchers, practitioners, and analysts from numerous other universities, research institutes, governmental units, and other organizations.

THE URBAN INSTITUTE
2100 M Street, NW
Washington, DC 200037
T 202-833-7200
www.urban.org
The Urban Institute is a nonpartisan economic and social policy research organization that has produced many studies on community development, including evaluations of the Living Cities program and surveys of the CDC industry.