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Affordable Housing

A Ford Foundation Program Paper on the growing housing crisis for low-income families and public and private efforts to resolve it.

Blessing the Peacemakers

Remarks presented at the Anti-Defamation League's Civic Commitment Award Dinner, New York, Oct. 7, 1980, discussing the relationship between community development and conflict resolution.

Building Bridges

Based on research conducted in 10 urban areas between 1991 and 1993 by Carnegie Mellon University and the Economic Development Assistance Consortium of employment training activities of community development corporations. The study concludes that networks of community organizations are often the best vehicles for employment training activities.

Changing Relations

A report to the Ford Foundation by the National Board of the Changing Relations Project. The board examined the everyday interactions and relations among new immigrants and residents in six communities: Albany Park, Chicago, Illinois; Garden City, Kansas; Houston, Texas; Miami, Florida; Monterey Park, California; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Community Action

Major excerpts from an address before the "Citizen's Conference on Community Planning" in Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan. 11, 1963, describing the Ford Foundation's Gray Areas programs.

Fulfilling America's Promise

A speech delivered at the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, April 23, 1991. A discussion of programs that are meeting the challenges of renewing American communities and rebuilding lives burdened by poverty.

Investing for Social Gain: Reflections on Two Decades of Program- Related Investments

A handbook on the Ford Foundation's experience with program-related investments, which are loans, guarantees, or equity investments that support the same goals as the foundation's grant programs. Includes nine case histories.

LISC: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation

A report on the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national nonprofit enterprise supported in part by the Ford Foundation. The report outlines the need that local community organizations have for added resources from both the private and public sectors, and how resources of corporations, foundations and government agencies can be harnessed for community development and revitalization. Columnist Neal Pierce comments on the necessity of public-private partnerships.

National Service

Remarks presented to a group of civic and business leaders, Monte Rio, California, July 22, 1984.

Perspectives on Partnerships

A report on the Foundation's community development partnership strategy, which brought together public and private funders in 17 communities to support neighborhood development in areas where the major community development intermediaries did not operate. Each partnership was composed of local banks, corporations, foundations and government representatives, and this report presents the perspective of these participants.

Recovering Our Confidence

A speech delivered at the Alumni Association of the City College of New York, Nov. 1, 1990.

Too Little, Too Late: Services For Teenage Parents

A Ford Foundation Working paper that examines some major programs operating in the United States in the early 1980's to serve teenage parents and their children.

Urban Community Development!

Remarks delivered in the City Club Forum, Cleveland, Ohio, Dec. 15, 1986.

Women, Children, and Poverty in America

A Ford Foundation Working Paper that reviews the problems facing low-income families headed by women and describes some current and planned Foundation responses.

Works in Progress

Reports on a demonstration program in poor neighborhoods in Detroit, Hartford, Memphis and Milwaukee to involve government, business, foundations, residents, neighborhood organizations and city leaders in community development and empowerment.

Youth Unemployment and National Service

Remarks adapted from an address delivered to the Economics Club of Detroit, March 7, 1983.