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2007
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Enterprise's 2006 annual report captures the breadth of Enterprise's reach and impact last year. The report shows how Enterprise reached major milestones, formed vital partnerships and achieved real results nationwide, thanks to the generous support and involvement of our many valuable individual donors and corporate and foundation supporters. |
2003
by New Mexico Tribal Homeownership Coalition
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This manual is a comprehensive overview of the steps required to create homeownership opportunities for tribal members living on reservation land, with a focus on the biggest obstacle: the mortgage lending process.
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2007
Enterprise Community Partners, Center for Housing and Policy Resarch
2007
Enterprise Community Partners, Center for Housing and Policy Resarch
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Purchase the Child Care Library from Atlas Books for $80.00
These seven manuals help providers and community development practitioners improve the supply, quality and affordability of child care in low-income communities. Each book includes a substantial resources section for more information and support.
2005
by the National Center for Healthy Housing and Enterprise Community Partners
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From 2003 to 2005, the Rochester and Syracuse, New York, Home-Based Child Care Lead Safety Program created 25 healthy and safe child-care homes that minimized the risks of unintentional injury and lead poisoning, while improving energy efficiency and indoor air quality. This 180-page document details the lessons learned, as well as outreach and education materials, income-qualification analyses, construction specifications, relocation planning tools and consent documents. |
2004
Handbook by Kathy Modigliani, Ellen Moore and the Family Child Care Project Video by Porchlight Productions, Megan Sheer, Michael J. Moore
2003
by Diana Meyer, Elizabeth Smith, Toni Porter, Sabina Cardenas
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This book documents the work of seven child care partnership programs in six cities. The programs were designed to create or support networks of home-based child care providers or to develop home repair or homeownership programs for providers of home-based child care. You will find a wealth of information such as lessons learned, background, contacts and resources. |
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2003
by Richard Mendel
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This guide helps communities steer youth away from crime toward a safe, productive future. It features 20 strategies for promoting youth development and healthy adulthood, case studies from the nation’s most successful youth crime-prevention programs and seven steps for developing a community campaign against youth crime. |
1997
by Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., Consortium for Housing and Asset Management
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This manual examines the approach used by property managers when establishing procedures for preventing crime. Both owners and managers have the obligation to provide residents with safe housing. This publication discusses the steps that can lead to a safer community. |
2001
by John Campbell
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This book identifies barriers to solving chronic nuisance problems, discusses ways that experienced leaders find solutions and provides a set of references for pursuing specific nuisance abatement goals. It provides resources that lead you to examples of nuisance laws and case studies that cover how others have solved chronic nuisance problems. It also helps you understand how community leaders approach such problems. |
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2007
by Tony Proscio
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This book details this national model that began before Minnesota Green Communities and continues today. It includes strong state and local leadership, an inclusive process that joins a diverse coalition of stakeholders and a clear, collective vision for sustainable development based on the Green Communities framework. These ingredients can be and are applicable elsewhere. This book details the efforts and distills key lessons for those interested in similar systems change in their states. |
2008
by Stockton Williams
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A new Enterprise publication that makes the case for a national commitment to increase the energy efficiency in affordable housing, especially homes for low-income people. A relatively modest federal investment in such a commitment would deliver significant environmental and economic benefits and help make progress in the fight against climate change by unleashing innovation among a wide range of private, public and community-based organizations. |
2006
by Enterprise Community Partners and National Center for Healthy Homes
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Three national housing organizations--Enterprise Community Partners, the National Center for Healthy Housing and NeighborWorks® America--teamed up with Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans to develop the cleanup protocols presented in this guide. The clean-up methods are based on scientific research and best practices unique to the destruction in the Gulf Coast region wrought by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. |
2005
by James Tassos
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This report discusses how states are using the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit to develop healthy, efficient and sustainable homes for low-income people. The analysis examines three key areas of green development: smart-site locations, energy and resource conservation and healthy living environments. |
2006
by James Tassos
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This analysis builds on Enterprise’s 2005 report, A Greener Plan: How States are Using the Housing Credit to Advance Sustainability. That report analyzed 2005 Housing Credit allocation plans and found most states had begun to encourage healthy, smart and efficient building through their Housing Credit programs. |
2007
by James Tassos
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This report provides background on the Housing Credit program; describes the methodology used to analyze the 2007 state Housing Credit allocation plans; discusses implementation of sustainable development policies through the Housing Credit program; and presents the green elements in every state's 2007 allocation plan, sorted by the aforementioned categories. |
2005
by Tony Proscio
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In June 2004, Enterprise, the National Center for Healthy Housing and the Annie E. Casey Foundation sponsored the conference “Healthier Homes, Stronger Families.” This paper is a follow-up to the conference. |
2002
By Jennifer Kao
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This overview illustrates and documents successful community garden projects generated by community-based organizations and highlights best practices to help organizations develop open-space projects. Much of the material comes from efforts in New York City, but should be useful for organizations across the nation. Community-based organizations can use this overview to develop community garden projects. |
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2006
by Diana Meyer, Trevor Britt, Sabina Cardenas, David Fromm, Ian Kennedy, Patricia Magnuson, Rich Petersen
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This book is a compendium of tools to help organizations design and implement effective resident services. It offers a recommended approach, tools for budgeting and tracking outcomes, how resident services can bolster the financial performance of the property and fundraising and almost 200 pages of hands-on resources that can be adapted for your programs in: employment; child care, after-school and youth programs; adult education and English as a second language; community safety and financial literacy. |
2006
by Tony Proscio
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This report describes why low-income families need and benefit from access to resident services and how the programs work. It explores the impact that these services have on both families and valuable affordable housing assets, where experiences shows that the presence of resident services programs can benefit occupancy and rent collection and reduce evictions and maintenance costs. |
2006
by Gore Flynn, Enterprise Resources Corporation
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The book is an effort to provide guidance for resident services program planning, by identifying norms for the costs of operating resident services programs. It compiles detailed research of the operations and budgets. |
2007
by James Tassos
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Through their qualified allocation plans (QAPs) for Low Income Housing Tax Credits, many states are using a variety of different incentives to support the inclusion of resident services in the development of affordable housing. This report outlines and summarizes the use of three types of incentives: threshold requirements, credit set-asides and scoring incentives as described in the 2007 plans for each state.
Review the 2005 report, Building Opportunities for Families into Affordable Housing
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2007
James Tassos
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The Supportive Housing Investment Partnership has updated its compressive look at the innovative policies states have adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development within qualified allocation plans for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit, analyzing each of the 50 states’ 2007 Housing Credit allocation plans.
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2006
by James Tassos
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Published by the Supportive Housing Investment Partnership, this document is the first-ever comprehensive look at the innovative policies states have adopted to foster and encourage supportive housing development within qualified allocation plans for the Low Income Housing Tax Credit. It was developed as a basic resource for supportive housing developers, policymakers and advocates interested in advancing public policies that dedicate financial resources for the development of supportive housing. |
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2006
by Leslie Fenwick
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This monograph summarizes the work of the Mechanicsville Community Learning Collaborative (MCLC), a five-year school-anchored community development initiative based in Atlanta, Georgia. MCLC focused on systematically transforming the lives of children who attend Dunbar Elementary School. This pilot initiative employed a comprehensive community development strategy based on Dunbar being a point of leverage for community change in Mechanicsville and vice versa. This report explores the work that can be done, and the results that can be achieved, at the intersections of community building, school reform, and neighborhood revitalization. |
2007
by Jill Khadduri, Heather Schwartz, Jennifer Turnham of Abt Associates, Inc.
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This paper provides an introduction to school-centered community revitalization. Part 1 presents the case for integrating school improvement into community development, drawing on the academic research linking school and neighborhood quality as well as early results from school-centered community revitalization projects across the country. Part 2 presents the core components of school-centered community revitalization, including both school-based activities and neighborhood-based activities. The final part of the paper illustrates the diverse approaches currently being taken to improve schools and neighborhoods, drawing on the experiences of eight school-centered community revitalization initiatives in five cities: Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago. |
2005
by Tony Proscio
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This report describes the remarkable results of efforts in four neighborhoods in three cities to connect community-based revitalization initiatives with school reform programs in the same neighborhoods. In some of the most challenged communities in Baltimore, St. Louis and Atlanta, low-income children, schools and neighborhoods are making real progress as a result of these coordinated approaches. |
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