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Center for Community Change
1000 Wisconsin Ave., NW
Washington , DC 20007
www.communitychange.org/default.asp



National Employment Law Project
55 John Street , 7 th Floor
New York , NY 10038
www.nelp.org



Corporation for Enterprise Development
777 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 410
Washington , DC 20002
www.cfed.org



National League of Cities
Workforce Development and Poverty Reduction Project
1301 Pennsylvania Ave., NW #550
Washington DC 20004
www.nlc.org


Suggested Reading


Getting Ahead Link: New Approaches to Generating Jobs and Opportunities for Residents of Low Income Communities .  Center for Community Change, 2001. www.communitychange.org/pub-econ-jobs.htm



Getting to the Table:  A Project Labor Agreement Primer . Garland , Liam and Susie Suafai. National Economic Development and Law Center , 2002. www.nedlc.org/publications/recent.html



Community Benefits Agreements: Making Development Projects Accountable . Gross, Julian et al. Good Jobs First and the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy, 2002. www.ctj.org/itep/cbarelease.htm



Jobs: Some Organizing Strategies . Center for Community Change, 1997. www.communitychange.org/pub-econ-jobs.htm



Creating Jobs: Public and Private Strategies for the Hard-to-Employ . Johnson, Cliff, et al. Corporation for Enterprise Development and Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 1999. www.cbpp.org/pubs/labmkt.htm



Failing, But Not Fooling, Public Housing Residents: The Impact of Job Interventions . Leavitt, Jacqueline and Mary Ochs. Poverty and Race Research Action Council, The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, and the University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Urban Planning, 1997. www.sppsr.ucla.edu/lewis/29A.pdf



Measure for Measure: Assessing Traditional and Sectoral Strategies for Workforce Development .  Sectoral Employment Development Learning Project (SEDLP), The Aspen Institute, 2000. www.aspeninstitute.org/eop/eop_sedlp.html



Networking Across Boundaries: New Directions in Community-Based Job Training and Economic Development . Volume 1: Community-Based Organizations As Workforce Development Hubs . Harrison, Bennett and Marcus Weiss, eds. Economic Development Assistance Consortium, 1998. www.ncced.org/edac/recpubs1298.html



Developing a Public Policy Agenda on Jobs . Okagaki, Alan. Center for Community Change, 1997. www.communitychange.org/pub-econ-jobs.htm



Saving and Creating Good Jobs: A Study of Industrial Retention and Expansion Programs . Mayer, Neil S. , Ph.D. Center for Community Change, 1998. www.communitychange.org/pub-econ-jobs.htm



Jobs By the Poor, For the Poor: Profiles of Community Innovation . Schweke, William, et al. Corporation for Enterprise Development, 1996. www.cfed.org/about/publication_list.htm



Six Strategies for Self-Sufficiency: Great Ideas for Using State Policy to Get Families out of Poverty . Wider Opportunities for Women, 1996. www.sixstrategies.org


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