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Selected Publications
NALCAB seeks to highlight publications available online that provide relevant information for asset building practitioners and researchers. Publications featured on this page will change periodically.
USDA Rural Cooperatives Magazine March/April 2012
Magazine features NALCAB member organization, Latino Economic Development Center in Minnesota.
Lost Grounds, 2011: Disparities in Mortgage Lending and Foreclosures
Pew Hispanic Center Report: Wealth, Gaps Rise to Record Highs Between Whites, Blacks and Hispanics
Center for Responsible Lending “Enfoque” Publication on Auto Finance
CFSI Underbanked Consumer Study
Best Practices in Latino Entrepreneurship (pdf)
Coming Together
Dee Walsh and Robert Zidenek
Shelterforce
The Assets Report 2010 (pdf)
Reid Cramer, Mark Huelsman, Justin King,
Alejandra Lopez-Fernandini, and David Newville
New America Foundation
The Foreclosure Generation: The Long-Term Impact of the Housing Crisis on Latino Families and Children
Janis Bowdler
The National Council of La Raza
Weathering the Storm: Have IDA’s helped Low-Income Homeowners Avoid Foreclosure
Ida Rademacher and Kasey Wiedrich, CFED
Signe-Mary McKernan, Caroline Ratcliffe
and Megan Gallagher, The Urban Institute
Addressing the Challenges of Unemployment in Low-Income Communities (pdf)
Carolina Reid
The Economic Crisis and Community Development
Finance: An Industry Assessment (pdf)
Mark Pinsky, Nancy Andrews, Paul Weech, Ellen Seidman, Rick Cohen
Increasing Wealth in the Latino Community (pdf)
A TRPI Conference Summary Report
The CRA and Subprime Lending: Discerning the Difference
Elizabeth Sobel
Hispanics and the Economic Downturn: Housing Woes and Remittance Cuts (pdf)
Mark Hugo Lopez, Gretchen Livingston, and Rakesh Kochhar
Best Practices in Latino Asset Building (pdf)
a NALCAB publication
Immigrant Integration in Los Angeles: Strategic Directions for Funders (pdf)
Manuel Pastor and Rhonda Ortiz
Wealth Building in the Borderlands: Linking Tax Refunds to Asset Building (pdf)
Barbara Robles
Raising Endowment Funds from the Latino Community
National Latino Funds Alliance (pdf)
Latino Migrants: A Profile in Remittances, Finances and Health (pdf)
Manuel Orozco and Nancy Castillo
Latino Workers in the Ongoing Recession: 2007- 2008 (pdf)
Rakesh Kochhar
Economic (In)Security: The Experience of the African- American and Latino Middle Classes (pdf)
Tamara Draut, Jennifer Wheary, Tatjana Meschede, & Thomas M. Shapiro
Financial Education in Latino Communities: An Analysis of Programs, Products and Results/Effects (pdf)
Financial Access for Immigrants: Learning from Diverse Perspectives
Policies promoting Microenterprise in Colonias: What works? What does not work? And Why? (pdf)
Immigrant Integration in Low-income Urban Neighborhoods: Improving Economic Prospects and Strengthening Connections for Vulnerable Families (pdf)
Lynette A. Rawlings, Randolph Capps, Kerstin Gentsch, Karina Fortuny of the Urban Institute
Building Assets While Building Communities
Heather McCulloch
Hispanic Housing in the United States
Timothy Ready
Latina Microenterprise and the U.S.-Mexico Border Economy
Bárbara J. Robles
Financial Access for Immigrants: Learning from Diverse Perspectives
Anna Paulson, Audrey Singer, Robin Newberger, and Jeremy Smith
Links
The following are important online libraries related to community development and asset building.
Survey of Free Online Resources for Community Development Practitioners
by Catherine Hyde, Enterprise Community Partners, 2007.
Tools
Tools and Tips for Improving Your Website
Google Analytics
Google Keyword Tool
Google Webmaster Tool
Non Profit Website Design: Examples and Best Practices
Taking Asset Building Personally
Bob Wittman
Manufactured Housing Toolkit
Corporation for Enterprise Development
Addressing Community Opposition to Affordable Housing Development: A Fair Housing Toolkit (pdf)
IRS is Speaking Your Language Fact Sheet (pdf)
Household Financial Security Scorecard (pdf)
Asset Opportunity Ladder (pdf)
Institute on Assets and Social Policy
State Asset Indicators
Institute on Assets and Social Policy
Community Wealth Builders by State
The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland (Community-Wealth.org)
Interactive tools for creating wealth
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Equitable Development Toolkit
Policy Link
