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		<title>What&#8217;s a CDC? New Legislation Provides an Answer.</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/08/whats-a-cdc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 13:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“What is a CDC?” I have probably been asked that question 1,000 times since I started working at MACDC in 1993.  It seems like a rather simple question and certainly one that the President of a CDC association should be able to answer. But it is not so easy.  There are many different definitions in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unsung Heroes: The Success of Nonprofit Counseling Agencies in Combating Foreclosures</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/06/unsung-heroes-the-success-of-nonprofit-counseling-agencies-in-combating-foreclosures/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/06/unsung-heroes-the-success-of-nonprofit-counseling-agencies-in-combating-foreclosures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 20:13:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Bianchi</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a true story. Actually, it is two stories about the foreclosure crisis, both true. We’re familiar with the first story. In Massachusetts and across the country, the foreclosure crisis continues to decimate families, and communities. The response from loan servicers has ranged from marginally improved at best, to anywhere from woefully inadequate to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Philadelphia Conference Explores Future of Community Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/philadelphia-conference-explores-future-of-community-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/philadelphia-conference-explores-future-of-community-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 14:21:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the opportunity to speak on a panel at a conference hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on the future of Community Development. The panel was the closing plenary session for the conference entitled Rethink. Recover. Rebuild: Reinventing Older Communities. It was broad conversation that gave me an opportunity to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asian CDC Launches Participatory Chinatown as a New Community Tool</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/asian-cdc-launches-participatory-chinatown-as-a-new-community-tool/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/asian-cdc-launches-participatory-chinatown-as-a-new-community-tool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 16:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete Kane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month, Asian Community Development Corporation (ACDC) and the Metropolitan Area Planning Council (MAPC) showcased a groundbreaking tool for civic engagement. Developing a very realistic 3D environment mimicking Chinatown in Boston, Participatory Chinatown gives community members opportunities to learn about the possibilities and tradeoffs the neighborhood may face in the coming years. MACDC member [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Let&#8217;s Stimulate Demand Driven Community Development</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/lets-stimulate-demand-driven-community-development/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/05/lets-stimulate-demand-driven-community-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 11:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In recent months, there has been a great deal of buzz about the Obama Administration’s new placed based initiatives such as Sustainable Communities, Promise Neighborhoods and Choice Neighborhoods. This federal leadership is indeed very exciting and certainly long overdue.  They will create opportunities for taking a more comprehensive and integrated approach to community development, something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>National Institute Will Advance Community Building</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/national-institute-will-advance-community-building/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/national-institute-will-advance-community-building/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bob Van Meter, Executive Director of LISC/Boston, and Joe Kriesberg write about a recent conference in Washington, DC that highlighted the importance of working comprehensively to build strong neighborhoods.]]></description>
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		<title>Lobby Day 2010</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/lobby-day-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/lobby-day-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 19:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Staton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is something inspiring about bringing people to the State House.  As a professional lobbyist I can, at times, take for granted the grand and inspiring dome sitting atop Beacon Hill.  I can find the process of watching bills or the annual budget go through the legislative process to be frustrating. Yet on Tuesday, April [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation in Action</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/innovation-in-action/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/04/innovation-in-action/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:02:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Small Business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I read about a new report by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli (with the help of the New York Council of Nonprofits) that found that 87 percent of nonprofit contracts with state government (of more than $50,000) were not approved prior to the nonprofits’ beginning their work. On average, new contracts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CDC Fiscal Health &#8211; where are we, where are we going?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/03/cdc-fiscal-health-where-are-we-where-are-we-going/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/03/cdc-fiscal-health-where-are-we-where-are-we-going/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Financial Health]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Joe Kriesberg]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.macdc.org/?p=32</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, at an event hosted by the Boston Foundation, the Community Development Innovation Forum released a new study by the Non Profit Finance Fund that looked at the fiscal health of the CDC sector. Bill Pinakiewicz from NFF, highlighted the key findings of the study, including: * Taken as a group, the twenty-six organizations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Connections – In Israel</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/02/making-connections-%e2%80%93-in-israel/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2010/02/making-connections-%e2%80%93-in-israel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:39:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe with activists in Yaffo Last month I had the opportunity to travel to Israel as part of the Jewish Community Relations Council’s Learning Exchange Program. The program was for non profit leaders in Boston and included a tour of Israel and then a three day seminar with nonprofit leaders from Boston’s sister city of [...]]]></description>
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