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Spring 2004 Bright Ideas Bright Ideas Spring 2004
Accessible Insurance: Protecting a Community's Greatest Assets
Plus:   My Kind of Town – Houston
  The State of the Art in Vermont
  los Arroyos: Building Community, Following a Vision
  Myths and Realities in the New Rural America
 
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Bright Ideas Spring 2004 (Entire Issue 2.26 MB)
 
Cover, Letter from Executive Director Kenneth D. Wade, Table of Contents [141 KB]
 
Cover Stories  (277 KB)
NeighborWorks Insurance Alliance; The Insurance Industry's View; NeighborWorks Risk Mitigation Program; Loss Prevention Partnerships Program; Agents as Committed Volunteers; CDC of Long Island and Insurance Partners Share Common Mission; Regional Approach Simplifies Partnership Efforts in Southern California
 
Feature Stories  (250 KB)
South County Housing's Los Arroyos; Salt Lake NHS's CitiFront Apartments
 
My Kind of Town: Houston  (380 KB)
 
State of the Art: Vermont (409 KB)
 
National Initiatives  (179 KB)
Backlash Against Home Ownership: Do the Critics Have a Point?; Homebuyers' Guide for Manufactured Housing; Community Organizing Pilot: Measuring the Value of Community Organizing; Selecting Outcome Measures That Matter
 
Issues and Ideas  (162 KB)
A Symposium Report: Myths and Realities in the New Rural America;
Regulatory Barriers – Secret (and Not so Secret) Weapons Against Affordable Housing
 
Training Opportunities  (60 KB)
 
Practitioners' Toolbox (121 KB)
On the Level: Mold Is Gold — A Whole New Way to Get Sued; NHS Silicon Valley Tests Moving from Mortgage Broker to Banker; A Cautionary View: A Checklist for Embarking on a Mortgage Lending Initiative; NHS of Waco: Exploring Computer-Assisted Home Design; Using GIS Crime-Mapping to Follow Up ‘Weed and Seed'; Readers' Corner; Grant-O-Mania in Grand Junction
 
Fascinating Findings  (30 KB)
What the Numbers Show: Growing the Network in Three Key Areas
 
Letter from the Field   (59 KB)
'Experience Has Taught Me': In Affordable Housing, the Consumer and Mission Come First
 
Glancing Back : 10 Years Ago in facts, figures and bright ideas (48 KB)
 
NeighborWorks News Room  (155 KB)
 
Inside Neighborhood Reinvestment   (83 KB)
Corporation Selects Ken Wade as Fourth Executive Director; Congress Approves Corporation's Funds in Omnibus Bill; Lynn Reilly Whiteside: Caring, Savvy, Effective; People; Calendar