MACDC GOALs Initiative

Growing Opportunities, Assets, and Leaders across the Commonwealth

Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are community-controlled, nonprofit organizations that work throughout the commonwealth to build more inclusive, vibrant, and productive communities. Since their inception more than 30 years ago, Massachusetts CDCs have developed over 25,000 homes and attracted several billion dollars of investment to low- and moderate- income communities.

Since 2003, MACDC and our members have collaborated on a collective effort to revitalize and stabilize communities across the state. The MACDC GOALs Initiative - Growing Opportunities, Assets, and Leaders across the Commonwealth - sets specific numeric targets that CDCs hope to achieve in six areas of community development and then measures our annual progress toward those goals. Each year, we conduct a detailed on-line survey of our members to learn precisely what they have accomplished. This report highlights the amazing progress that CDCs have made over the past year and prior years.

In just the past seven years, CDCs have achieved the following results:

  • Engaged  over 1,700 volunteer community leaders in CDC activities each year;
  • Built or preserved 9,168 homes;
  • Created or preserved 14,349 job opportunities;
  • Provided technical and financial support to 8,219 locally-owned businesses;
  • Supported 160,407 families with housing, jobs, training, or other services; and
  • Attracted $1.67 billion in private and public investments in our communities.