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MACDC Programs
- The Alliance: Advancing Community Development by Confronting Racism
The Alliance is a coalition of community development organizations and practitioners dedicated to increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of leadership of the community development field by address racism. The Alliance sponsors a mentoring program for young professionals of color in the field, has published a manual on recruiting, hiring and retaining a diverse staff, offers trainings and dialogue sessions on issues of race and racism, and has launched the Diversity Compact, an affirmative commitment by community development organizations to confront racism within their own organizations. - The Community Development Innovation Forum
The Community Development Innovation Forum is a program sponsored by MACDC and the Boston office of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) to engage in a robust and thoughtful process to identify specific opportunities to advance innovative practices that will enable the field to most effectively respond to the changing dynamics in our communities. The program was launched on June 11, 2008 and has five task forces working on discreet issues facing the field. For more information on the Community Develelopment Innovation Forum please Click Here - Commonwealth Workforce Coalition+
MACDC is co-founder of the Commonwealth Workforce Coalition which provides training and networking opportunities for workforce development practitioners throughout the state. CWC evolved out of an earlier MACDC program to support CDC staff people in this field and now serves people working at all community based organizations in the state. CWC is managed by the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation. For more information about the CWC, Click Here - GOALs Initiative: Growing Opportunities, Assets and Leaders Across the Commonwealth
Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are community controlled, non-profit organizations that, for more than thirty years, have been working across the Commonwealth to build more inclusive, vibrant, and productive communities. Yet, the current economy and an enduring housing crisis require much more to be done. The MACDC GOALs Initiative sets ambitious multi-year goals for its members and then measures our collective progress toward them. First launched in 2002, the GOALs Initiative is currently focused on a four-year agenda to invest $1 billion in our communities between 2007 and 2010. MACDC’s most recent GOALs Initiative report was published in May 2008. Please click on the GOALs Campaign button to your left to read some of our materials. - Green CDCs Initiative
MACDC is partnering with New Ecology, Inc., the Tellus Institute and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation to offer training, technical assistance and assistance with identifying and accessing funding for CDCs pursuing environmentally sound and sustainable development projects. So far, more than 20 CDCs have participated in this Initiative. The Initiative also conducts research on best practices and advocates with lenders and government agencies to adopt policies that will better support sustainable community development. - Western Massachusetts Community Development Collaborative
CDCs in Berkshire, Franklin, Hampshire, Hampden and eastern Worcester County are working together to build partnerships among and between community based organizations; expand funding to support community based development from both existing and new sources; and build capacity of CDCs through peer-to-peer support, technical assistance, and training. Click on the link below for a list of CDCs participating in this project.
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June-11-2008-Meeting-Materials-6.3.08.ppt