Learning

Financial Assets

• Three Elements to a Successful Financial Literacy Education Program —Leslie Linfield, 2008
• Strategies to Build Individual Assets —Carl Rist, CFED. 2006
• Asset Building & Financial Education —Abby Holsclaw, National League of Cities. 2006
• "Building Social Capital One Dollar at a Time" —Melissa Wiersema
• "Promoting Financial Literacy," —extracted from "Maximizing the Earned Income Tax Credit in Your Community" published by the National League of Cities
• "Implementing a Financial Education Program in Your Community" —developed by Karen L. Murrell

Housing

• Family Rental Housing —Orlando Artze, Community Housing Partners Corporation. 2006
• Manufactured Housing: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?—Dave Buccholz, CFED. 2006
• "'Mobile' Homes No More: Policy Innovations in Manufactured Housing," —David Buchholz

Capital & Lending

• Florida Community Loan Fund —Ignatio Estaban, Florida Community Loan Fund. 2006
• Mission Driven Venture Capital —Rick Larson, SJF Ventures. 2006
• "Community Development Venture Capital Funds" —Julia Sass Rubin
• Predatory Mortgage Lending Robs Homeowners & Devastates Communities" —a Fact Sheet from Center for Responsible Learning
• "Predatory Payday Lending Traps Borrowers" —a Fact Sheet from Center for Responsible Learning
• "CDFI Data Sheets "Providing Capital, Building Communities, Creating Impact" —a publication from the CDFI Data Project

Advocacy & Public Policy

• A Model for Mobilizing Public Will —Roy Miller, 2008
• Framing the Future —Bernie Horn, 2008
• "Social Policy and Creation of the American Middle Class/Why We Need Community-Level Asset Strategies" —Carl Rist and David Buccholz, CFED, Washington, D.C. and Durham, N.C.
• Predatory Lending and Public Policy —Eric Halperin, Center for Responsible Lending. 2006
• "Welfare Reform and Beyond #32" —Ray Boshara
• HYPERLINK "Building Wealth By Promoting Tax Credits and Savings..." —Robert O. Zdenek
• "Flunking Financial Literacy," —Charles Bagle
• "National Campaigns, Coalitions, and the Financial Services Sector"—extract from "Goodbye to Complacency"

Community Issues

• Civic Entrepreneurship: Revenue Generating Strategies for Government and Nonprofit Organizations —2006
• "Creating Sustainable Communities in an Era of Fiscal Austerity and Global Insecurity" —2006
• "Reimaging Distressed Communities, A Strategy to Reverse Decline and Attract Investors" —Catherine Toups and James H. Carr

Strategies & Processes

• Rural Leadership Development —Jean Burkhart, 2008
• An Outcomes Framework —Pam Wilson 2008
• "Holding Up the Mirror: Community Profiles, SWOT Analysis, and Foresight Planning"
  Dr. James H. Johnson, Jr., Kenan Distinguished Professor, Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise, Kenan —Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 2006