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Summer 2006 NeighborWorks Bright Ideas

 

 

Bright Ideas Summer 2006

 

The Tragedy of Foreclosure: Community-Based Nonprofits Respond | How One City Responds In Syracuse, New York: Kelly Besaw's Research Helped Launch a Foreclosure-Prevention Program

 

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Who's Preparing Today's Youth for Leadership in Community Development?

  Changing Housing Market: When Baylor Students Get the Jump on Waco Seniors
  In Rochester, New York: From Classroom to the Board Room: Two Complementary CDCs Agree to Merge
   
 
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Bright Ideas Summer 2006 [PDF, Entire Issue 4.9 MB]

 
Cover Story [PDF, 1.2 MB] The Tragedy of Foreclosure: Community-based Nonprofits Respond

The looming downside of recent gains in homeownership is a burgeoning surge in the foreclosures that can threaten entire neighborhoods and communities. Community-based development organizations and researchers together are gaining insights and developing responses. By Donna DeZube.

 
Feature Stories 

Who's Preparing Today's Youth for Leadership in Community Development? [PDF, 364 KB]
Changing Housing Market: When Baylor Students Get the Jump on Waco Seniors
[PDF, 388 KB]
In Rochester, New York: From the Classroom to the Board Room: Two Complementary CDCs agree to Merge [PDF, 77 KB]

 

A Letter from the CEO  [PDF, 57 KB]

Preventing Foreclosures: Research and Innovation Are Keys by Kenneth D. Wade.
 
Research Notes [PDF, 146 KB]
Trends, News and Findings That Impact Our Communities
 
Viewpoint
Want to Transform Community Development? Tap into the Energy of Youth
[PDF, 137 KB] by Khepe-Ra Maat
 
Practitioners' Toolbox

NHSAonline.org - Harnessing E-commerce for Community Development Lending
[PDF, 551 KB] by Andrea Washburn

 

Training

For the New Americans: Developing User-Friendly Homeownership Counseling Resources [PDF, 102 KB] by Theresa Peyton

 
Network Newsroom

Highlights from Selected NeighborWorks Organizations [PDF, 442 KB]

- In Buffalo's West Side How Partnering with a Bank Helped Lift a Community
- Creating a Homebuyers' Team TRIP Helps Homebuyer Wanabes Become Real Homeowners
- Homeowner of the Year Determination, Patience Pay Off for Utica Single Mother
- Affordable Senior Housing The IMPACT! Group Opens 152-Unit Huntington Court
- Laconia Area CLT Executive Director Named ‘Remarkable Woman’ of 2006
- Boston Youth Gains Skills, Experience Through Nuestra CDC
- California Farmworker Families Paint Art Tiles for Their New Homes
- USDA's Rural Development Honors Missouri NeighborWorks Affiliate

 
Q & A Profile [PDF, 131 KB]
I've been preaching patience’: Randy Michaelson of NHS of New Orleans
 
NeighborWorks News Room [PDF, 189 KB]
Nuestra's Kitchen Venture Aids Food-Service Entrpreneurs 2006 Innovations Contest to Focus on Foreclosures
Foundation Communities Sees Doubling of Low-income Tax Aid

 

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