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		<title>Benefit Corporations: A new ally?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/04/benefit-corporations-a-new-ally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:23:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MACDC is pleased to share this blog from Standford Fraser who is interning at NACEDA for the Spring 2012 Semester. He is currently a Junior History major and Community Development minor at Howard University. Benefit Corporations are defined as a new class of corporation that 1) creates a material positive impact on society and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can We Build Our Way Out of Crime?</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/02/can-we-build-our-way-out-of-crime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Review]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider: The Olneyville neighborhood of Providence, RI achieves a 53% reduction in crime. The Druid Hills Neighborhood of Charlotte, NC achieves a 58% reduction in crime. The Phillips Neighborhood in Minneapolis, MN achieves a 90% reduction in drug-related crime What do these three neighborhoods have in common that enabled them to achieve and sustain such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Attorney General Coakley Gets it Right on the National Mortgage Settlement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 20:39:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Bianchi</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreclosures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On February 9, 2012, the Federal Government and Attorneys General from 49 States reached an agreement with the five largest mortgage servicers for $25 billion in payments to resolve violations of state and federal law and to implement comprehensive new mortgage loan servicing standards.  The five servicers are Ally Financial, Inc. (formerly GMAC), Bank of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six dates to put on your 2012 calendar</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/02/six-dates-to-put-on-your-2012-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/02/six-dates-to-put-on-your-2012-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know that our schedules fill up quickly with meetings, events, and appointments so I want to make sure that our readers put these five important dates into your calendars now &#8211; so you don&#8217;t miss out! March 5 &#38; 6 - The Institute for Comprehensive Community Development will be hosting the second &#8220;Getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Data Geek or a Data Poet?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/02/are-you-a-data-geek-or-a-data-poet-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 20:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By: Julianna Tschirhart Program Coordinator, The Mel King Institute for Community Building I have a confession to make: I am a data geek. I have been known to kill time by looking at the American Fact Finder website, exploring various zip codes in the New York Times Interactive Census Map, or planning hypothetical journeys on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Could 2012 be the best year for Massachusetts CDCs since 1982?</title>
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		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2012/01/could-2012-be-the-best-year-for-massachusetts-cdcs-since-1982/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Community Development]]></category>
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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>Bulldozing Out of Foreclosures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Bianchi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 18th, CBS’ 60 Minutes broadcast a story entitled There Goes the Neighborhood about the impact of abandoned properties due to foreclosures and declining home values.  The piece focuses on Cleveland, Ohio where Cuyahoga County officials have demolished more than 1,000 homes this year &#8211; and plan to demolish 20,000 more &#8211; rather than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Five (six) websites to bookmark in 2012</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/five-six-websites-to-bookmark-in-2012/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/five-six-websites-to-bookmark-in-2012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With so much information available to us all the time, most of us could use some help sorting through the noise to find interesting and helpful information on the internet. While there are countless websites related to community development and affordable housing, here are five (well, O.K., six) that should be on your list: 1. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ticking Time Bombs</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/ticking-time-bombs-3/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/ticking-time-bombs-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 17:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Allison Staton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Allison Staton]]></category>
		<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>Four key ideas that I heard at the New England Housing Network Conference</title>
		<link>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/four-key-ideas-that-i-heard-at-the-new-england-housing-network-conference/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.macdc.org/2011/12/four-key-ideas-that-i-heard-at-the-new-england-housing-network-conference/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Kriesberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Financial Health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Housing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Kriesberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The New England Housing Network held its annual conference in Needham, MA yesterday and the speakers and workshops provided a tremendous amount of information and insight into the current state of affairs in Washington, DC.   Four ideas that stood out for me: 1. It&#8217;s bad &#8211; but it could get worse:  The budget situation in [...]]]></description>
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