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Affordable Housing

A Ford Foundation Program Paper on the growing housing crisis for low-income families and public and private efforts to resolve it.

Common Good, The

Executive summary of policy recommendation of the Executive Panel of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future.

Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future, The

Policy recommendations of the Executive Panel of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future.

Divide and Conquer: Responsible Security for America's Poor

A review of various income-maintenance programs and suggestions for change to take account of the great diversity of the poor and the needs of different groups.

Fulfilling America's Promise

A speech delivered at the Chicago Council on Urban Affairs, April 23, 1991. A discussion of programs that are meeting the challenges of renewing American communities and rebuilding lives burdened by poverty.

Investing for Social Gain: Reflections on Two Decades of Program- Related Investments

A handbook on the Ford Foundation's experience with program-related investments, which are loans, guarantees, or equity investments that support the same goals as the foundation's grant programs. Includes nine case histories.

LISC: The Local Initiatives Support Corporation

A report on the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), a national nonprofit enterprise supported in part by the Ford Foundation. The report outlines the need that local community organizations have for added resources from both the private and public sectors, and how resources of corporations, foundations and government agencies can be harnessed for community development and revitalization. Columnist Neal Pierce comments on the necessity of public-private partnerships.

Perspectives on Partnerships

A report on the Foundation's community development partnership strategy, which brought together public and private funders in 17 communities to support neighborhood development in areas where the major community development intermediaries did not operate. Each partnership was composed of local banks, corporations, foundations and government representatives, and this report presents the perspective of these participants.

Program-Related Investments

A report dealing with the Foundation's experiences in its first five years of work with program-related investments, in which capital funds are loaned or invested in enterprises that serve philanthropic goals, such as minority business development and low-income housing.

Reforming Welfare with Work

Occasional Paper 2, Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future. A report on a five-year study by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation examining state initiatives to help welfare recipients obtain employment.

Search for a New Economic Order, The

A report that describes the main areas of economic research supported by the Ford Foundation in the 1970's, with particular emphasis given to the work in international economics.

Women, Children, and Poverty in America

A Ford Foundation Working Paper that reviews the problems facing low-income families headed by women and describes some current and planned Foundation responses.