Publications
 Storied Communities, Community Stories + Conversation Guide + Methodology
Community Opportunity Alliance & ThirdSpace Action Lab, 2024
The research report to understand the role that resident voices have played historically, play today, and could play in the future in + with community-based development organizations. 56 residents across four geographies were interviewed by artist-researchers, culminating in this report and an interactive conversation guide for residents, community developers, and development intermediaries.
What is a Community Development Corporation?
Frank Woodruff, December 2023
The article examines the history of community development and implores funders and policymakers who care about racial equity and the future of underserved places to understand the field's identity more deeply.
Money Meets Community Brief #4: Community Economic Development Organizations & Their Financial Health
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2024
This issue brief assesses the financial health of all groups across the community economic development sector.
Money Meets Community Brief #3: Community Economic Development Organizations, Geography, & Financial Resources
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2023
This issue brief analyzes how resources and community economic development organizations are distributed across the United States.
Money Meets Community Brief #2: Tracing Community Economic Development Funding Flows
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2023
This issue brief examines how funding flows into community economic development organizations.
Money Meets Community Brief #1: Community Economic Development Organizations & Their Activities
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2023
This issue brief identifies the types of nonprofit organizations that make up the community development sector.
2023 Family Snapshot
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2023
The report explores how the state and regional community development associations engage in environmental and climate justice.
The State of Community-Based Development Organizations
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2023
This national census report provides field-level data on the production, programs, leadership, needs, and services of community-based development organizations from 2019–2021
Financial Health Report
Community Opportunity Alliance | Formerly NACEDA, 2022
This is the first-ever national report on the community development sector based on an analysis of 990 forms and other tax data. It examines the financial vulnerability of the sector.
Creative Placemaking Report
NACEDA & Art Partners in Minnesota, New Jersey, and Texas, 2023
The partners explore in this report, how their states can create ecosystems that nurture equitable creative placemaking.
Family Snapshot
NACEDA, 2022
The 2022 snapshot highlights the adaptability and significance of NACEDA members over the course of a year.
COVID-19 Impact Report
NACEDA, 2021
This report uses the results from two comprehensive surveys of NACEDA members to identify network-wide trends in budget, programming, and staffing between January 2020 and March 2021.
Community Economic Development & Healthcare Playbook
NACEDA and Build Healthy Places Network, 2021
This playbook showcases strategies that create training opportunities, living-wage jobs, support local entrepreneurs, improve access to healthy food, and leverage assets from health institutions.
2020 NACEDA Family Portrait
NACEDA, 2020
Annual report of state and regional community development associations in the NACEDA network ― their budgets, priorities, cross-sector partnerships, advocacy, and member services.
Redlining
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, 2019
NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff and scholar Gregory D. Squires co-author this piece on the recent emergence of "reverse redlining" as a major U.S. problem.
State Policy to Support Creative Placemaking
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - Community Development Innovation Review, 2019
Co-authored by NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff and Membership Director Jeremy Brownlee with Kelly Barsdate and Ryan Stubbs of the National Assembly of State Art Agencies
Talking Values: Soulful Conversations within Community Economic Development
NACEDA, 2018
A series of essays and responses to provoke and prompt discussion in five topic areas including Organizing, Scale & Accountability, Racial Equity, Identity, and Emerging Leaders.
Community Benefit and CRA
NACEDA and Community Catalyst, 2016
A Side-By-Side Comparison of Nonprofit Hospital and Bank Regulation.
Financial Empowerment in a Thriving Community Development Network
NACEDA, 2015
Report discussing ideas and inspiration from a descriptive assessment of NACEDA members' financial empowerment and asset building activities.
State and Local Affordable Housing/Community Development Associations: A 2014 Family Portrait
NACEDA, 2014
Census of NACEDA member associations, including governance, budget, membership, online presence, programs, and the future.
Rising Above: Community Economic Development in a Changing Landscape
NACEDA, June 2010
Report measures the quantitative achievements of community-based development organizations.
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