Acknowledgments

Those who conducted interviews at one or more of the 10 CDC sites were principal investigator Bennett Harrison, currently visiting professor of political economy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, on leave from the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University; Marcus Weiss, president of the Economic Development Assistance Consortium (EDAC) and a long-time consultant to CDCs and CBOs across the country; Reese Fayde, a consultant specializing in real estate and community development, who works closely with the network of mature CDCs assisted by the Ford Foundation; Charles Grigsby, EDAC's specialist in venture capital and minority business formation for community economic development, and former president of the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation; John Metzger, a specialist in housing finance and the Community Reinvestment Act, who has worked in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, and New York City; and Heriberto Flores, director of the Brightwood CDC in Springfield, Mass., a trustee of the University of Massachusetts, and executive director of the New England Farm Workers' Council.

Other senior associates of EDAC who assisted the project in Pittsburgh and Denver, in Boston, and in Washington, D.C., respectively, were Mulugetta Birru, formerly executive director of the Homewood-Brushton Revitalization and Development Corporation and currently director of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh; Philip Clay, chair of the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Leo Fishman, EDAC's affiliate in Washington, D.C., and counsel to the National Congress for Community Economic Development.

Ten students from the Heinz School participated in the field work and conducted extensive background research on economic conditions in each of the 10 sites. They worked under the direction of student project manager Jon Gant, who is now a doctoral candidate at the Heinz School. Other student participants were Hussain Fahkruddin, Michael Hatch, Steven Hulett, Jake Jones, Ruth Ann Lange, Kathy Meredith, Mark Miller, Adam Rabiner, and Rhonda Ray. John Engberg, assistant professor of economics at the Heinz School and a specialist in labor economics, conducted a weekly seminar for the student participants throughout the year.

We were assisted by an advisory board made up of people with extensive experience in community development or policy making. Board members were Mulugetta Birru; Rodney