Community Development.

In helping to strengthen selected Community Development Corporations (CDCs), the Foundation hopes both to illuminate the process of development as it relates to poor communities in an advanced economy and to assist the growth of minority leadership. Foundation-assisted CDCs typically conduct balanced programs of social and economic projects and possess strong executive leadership and the potential to engage in large-scale ventures concentrated in a limited geographic area—for example, a rural county or a city neighborhood. Foundation support includes cash grants, investments, and technical assistance. Federal funds provide the bulk of CDC financing for specific projects.

In their efforts to improve housing, create job opportunities, and spur more efficient delivery of government and private services, the CDCs are trying to help the poor break the cycle of dependence and deprivation that locks them out of the benefits of the surrounding, generally affluent society.

In addition to supplementary grants this year to seven urban and rural CDCs serving primarily black communities, the Foundation provided direct assistance to three CDCs organized by and for Chicanos. Formerly they were supported through grants to the National Council of La Raza, which this year received supplementary support for other, less-developed local Chicano organizations.

The CDCs funded are:

• Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation in Brooklyn, New York, the largest CDC in the country, $975,000. Restoration's major economic development effort is a large commercial-residential complex.

• Zion Non-Profit Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, $525,000. Zion's projects include a shopping plaza, a moderate-income housing project, a scholarship and tutoring program, a real estate development corporation, and a property management company. It is currently developing 6.5 acres adjacent to the shopping plaza to provide additional jobs and business opportunities.

• Watts Labor Community Action Committee, $650,000. Activities include planning for commercial and residential development of 140 acres surrounding the new Martin Luther King Hospital in south central Los Angeles, and a range of social and economic projects.

• East Central Committee for Opportunity (ECCO) in rural Hancock County, Georgia, $400,000, provided through a grant to the Atlanta University School of Business, which administers ECCO's projects. ECCO's two large ventures are a $2.5 million, 358-acre catfish farm that provides employment for Hancock residents, and a 150-unit, $2.6 million housing development.

• The Woodlawn Organization, a federation of 144 black community groups on Chicago's South Side, $304,352, to help support management of a large apartment complex and a shopping plaza. Another housing project is under construction, and a square-mile area has been targeted for major redevelopment to contain a mix of new and rehabilitated housing.

• The South East Alabama Self-Help Association (SEASHA), $275,000. Serving black and white poor people in a twelvecounty