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	<title>Making Connections: MACDC&#039;s Blog &#187; Community Development</title>
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		<title>Could 2012 be the best year for Massachusetts CDCs since 1982?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/01/could-2012-be-the-best-year-for-massachusetts-cdcs-since-1982/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Starting in the mid 1970s, Mel King and other visionary leaders of the community development movement worked systematically to build a support infrastructure for CDCs in Massachusetts. They understood that such a system could grow what was then a nascent movement of community based development organizations, largely in Boston, and transform it into a robust, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticking Time Bombs</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/ticking-time-bombs-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Staton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Back in October, in the pouring rain, a group of people got on a small school bus and drove around different neighborhoods in Worcester. The Joint Committee on Community Development and Small Business had sponsored a tour to examine community economic development throughout Massachusetts. The tour took legislators, municipal officials, small business owners, housing advocates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is on the other side of the CDFI coin?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/what-is-on-the-other-side-of-the-cdfi-coin/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/what-is-on-the-other-side-of-the-cdfi-coin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 01:33:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Development Partnership Act]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[State Policy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing the suply of capital to low and moderate income communities has been a central goal of the community development movement since its inception. From the passage of the Community Reinvestment Act in 1977, to the Low Income Housing Tax Credit in 1986, to the establishment of the CDFI fund in 1995, to the New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What do Roxbury and Arlington have in common?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/what-do-roxbury-and-arlington-have-in-common/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/what-do-roxbury-and-arlington-have-in-common/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many ways, the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston and the suburban town of Arlington, Massachusetts are very different. Roxbury is a low income urban neighborhood with per capita income of about $16,000 and 86 percent of the population comprised of people of color. By contrast, Arlington has a per capita income of $44,000 and 86 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are we getting too smart for our own good?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/are-we-getting-too-smart-for-our-own-good/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/11/are-we-getting-too-smart-for-our-own-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I greatly enjoyed Russ Douthat’s column in last week’s Sunday New York Times called “Our Reckless Meritocracy.&#8221;  Reflecting on former New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine’s fall from grace, Douthat notes that many super smart and super successful leaders in business and politics have “led us off a cliff — mostly by being too smart for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five reasons why June 1 was a great day</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/06/five-reasons-why-june-1-was-a-great-day/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/06/five-reasons-why-june-1-was-a-great-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:39:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On June 1, 2011, the Joint Committee on Small Business and Community Development held a hearing at the Massachusetts State House on the Community Development Partnership Act. This bill, which is MACDC’s number one priority this year, would create a donation tax credit designed to spur public/private investment in high performing community development initiatives across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Collaboration Trend Getting Old?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/04/is-the-collaboration-trend-getting-old/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/04/is-the-collaboration-trend-getting-old/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 16:15:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Collaboration has become such a popular word in our field that one wonders at times whether it has lost its meaning and importance. Has collaboration become a cliché? Is it a passing fad? Has it been oversold? I would have to say, from what I am seeing in Massachusetts and around the country, that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Smarter Way to Reduce Health Care Spending</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/04/a-smarter-way-to-reduce-health-care-spending/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/04/a-smarter-way-to-reduce-health-care-spending/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 12:58:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Public Health]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The first meeting I ever attended on behalf of MACDC – way back in 1993 – was at the Bowdoin Street Community Health Center. The purpose of the meeting was to strategize ways to reduce childhood lead poisoning by building a coalition of community development, housing, environmental and public health advocates to fight for changes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How can we drive performance in the Community Development Field?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/03/how-can-we-drive-performance-in-the-community-development-field/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/03/how-can-we-drive-performance-in-the-community-development-field/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2011 13:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Kriesberg]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Performance and accountability are the subject of substantial discussion these days throughout the nonprofit sector. Government agencies, private funders and non-profit leaders themselves are increasingly focused on taking steps to ensure that we fund programs &#8220;that work&#8221; and stop funding those &#8220;that don&#8217;t&#8221;.   Last week, I wrote about Social Impact Bonds, a new approach for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Report is Required Reading for Community Developers</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/02/new-report-is-required-reading-for-community-developers/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/02/new-report-is-required-reading-for-community-developers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new report by Enterprise Community Partners provides an insightful analysis into the financial challenges facing community developers and offers thoughtful recommendations for how to address them at the organizational and system levels. It should be required reading for all community developers and their supporters. The report, Building Sustainable Organizations for Affordable Housing and Community [...]]]></description>
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