Community Development Corporation (CDC) Tools

Cara Hendrickson, with Nick Brunick, A Community Guide to Creating Affordable Housing, Chicago, IL: Business and Professional People for the Public Interest, 2005.
tool-bpi-affordable-housing.pdf (940KB)

Corporation for Supportive Housing, Toolkit for Ending Long-Term Homelessness, Washington, DC: CSH, October 2004.
tool-csh-homelessness.pdf (588KB)

Corporation for Supportive Housing, Guidebook on Developing Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless Veterans, Washington, DC: CSH, May 2006.
tool-csh-support-hsg-vets.pdf (856KB)

Enterprise Foundation, Developing a Child Care Center, Columbia, MD: Enterprise, 2004.
tool-enterprise-child-care.pdf (1.5MB)

Enterprise Foundation, Property Management: Long Term Thinking & Short Term Action, Columbia, MD: Enterprise, 2004.
tool-enterprise-prop-mgmt.pdf (540KB)

Enterprise Foundation, Self-Assessment Tool for Community Development Organizations, Columbia, MD: Enterprise, 2000.
tool-enterprise-self-assess.pdf (176KB)

Diana A. Meyer, Trevor Britt, Sabina Cardenas, David Fromm, Ian Kennedy, Patricia Magnuson, and Rich Petersen, Creating Opportunities for Families Through Resident Services: A Practitioner’s Manual– Guidance and Resources for Offering Effective Services to Residents, ed. by Catherine Hyde, Columbia, MD: Enterprise Community Partners, September 2006.
tool-enterprise-support-serv.pdf (8MB)

Gregory L. Griffin and Marian O’Connor, Year 15 Nonprofit Transition Strategies For LIHTC Properties, Cleveland, OH: Enterprise Community Conference, November 16, 2007.
tool-enterprise-year15.pdf (5.9MB)

Karl F. Seidman, Revitalizing Commerce for American Cities: A Practitioner’s Guide to Urban Main Street Programs, Practitioner’s Guide, Washington, DC: Fannie Mae Foundation, 2004.
tool-fannie-mae-main-street.pdf (1.8MB)

Randy Brock, Thomas Rhodenbaugh, Malcom Bush, and Nancy Stutts, Sustaining Community-Based Initiatives, Community Economic Development-Module Three, Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 1995.
tool-kellogg-CED.pdf (2.6MB)

Jewru Bandeh, Gillian Kaye, Thomas Wolff, Susanna Trasolini, and Anne Cassidy, Sustaining Community-Based Initiatives, Developing Community Capacity -Module One, Battle Creek, MI: W. K. Kellogg Foundation, 1995.
tool-kellogg-cmty-cap.pdf (3.4MB)

Julie Obbard, “Charter School Facilities Requirements: A Guide for Developers, Brokers and Landlords,” Report to the Community, Issue VI, San Francisco: CA: Low Income Investment Fund, November 2007.
tool-liff-charter-schools.pdf (2.7MB)

PolicyLink, Mapping for Change: Using Geographic Information Systems for Community Development, New York, NY: LISC, 2002.
tool-lisc-gis.pdf (3.6MB)

Rick Jacobus & Maegan Winning (Burlington Associates), edited by Judy Turnock (LISC/ODI) Joint Ventures with For-Profit Developers: A Guide for Community Development Corporations, New York, NY: Local Initiatives Support Corporation, 2006.
tool-lisc-joint-ventures.pdf (5.1MB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Sample CDC Policies and Procedures Manual, New York, NY: LISC, 2002.
tool-lisc-procedure-manual.pdf (216KB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Preservation of Affordable Rural Housing: A Practitioners’ Guide to the Section 515 Program, New York, NY: Fannie Mae Foundation and LISC, March 2005.
tool-lisc-rural-hsg.pdf (416KB)

Local Initiatives Support Corporation, Refinanced and Reborn: Planning for the Year 15 Transition of Your Tax Credit Projects, ed. by Judy Turnock, New York, NY: LISC, 2006.
tool-lisc-year15-tax-credits.pdf (1.3MB)

National Center for Healthy Housing and The Enterprise Foundation, A Guide to Implementing a Home-Based Child Care Lead Safety Program: Program Description and Document Templates, Prepared under U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Operation Lead Elimination Action Program Grant MDLOL 0005–02, Washington, DC and Columbia, MD: National Center for Healthy Housing and The Enterprise Foundation, April 2005
tool-natl-ctr-healthy-hsg.pdf (6.8MB)

National Trust For Historic Preservation, A Best Practices Toolkit for Historic Preservation and Redevelopment, Washington, DC: National Trust for Historic Preservation, 2002.
tool-natl-trust-hist-preserv.pdf (5.6MB)

Bryan Hassel and Linda Sorden with Amy Anderson, Anne Geggie, Charity Sack, David Nolan, Donna Creedon, Hunter Moss and Robert Ramirez, The Answer Key: How To Plan, Develop and Finance Your Charter School Facility, Washington, DC: NCB Development Corporation, 2005.
tool-ncb-charter-schools.pdf (724KB)

NeighborWorks America, Community Development Evaluation: Storymap and Legend, Washington, DC: NeighborWorks America, June 2006.
tool-nw-evaluation.pdf (3.5MB)

Rick Jacobus and Maureen Hickey, with Katherine Daniel, Ariel Bierbaum, and Johnasies McGraw, under the direction of Desiree Sideroff and Rebecca Flournoy, Grocery Store Attraction Strategies: A Resource Gide for Community Activists and Local Governments, Oakland, CA: PolicyLink and Bay Area LISC, 2007.
tool-policylink-lisc-grocery.pdf (3.5MB)

Sherrie L.W. Rhine, with William Reeves, E. Matthew Quigley, Barry Wides, and Julie L. Williams, “Low-Income Housing Tax Credits: Affordable Housing Investment Opportunities for Banks,” Community Development Insights, Washington, DC: U.S. Department of the Treasury, Comptroller of the Currency, Community Affairs Department, February 2008.
tool-ustreas-lihtc.pdf (1MB)