A Community in Bloom: An Affordable Housing Needs Assessment of West Bloomington

This report was written in response to a request from Habitat for Humanity of McLean County. The report expands upon and updates an affordable homeownership needs assessment for the Bloomington-Normal community – with an emphasis on West Bloomington – that was created in 2004. Because the housing market and economic conditions of the area have changed drastically in the last 6 years, an updated report is necessary

Local community and economic development

This thesis is a study made on economic and social development through policy and planning at the community level. The contents present the preconditioning factors required for economic and social development. It gives a general idea of how effective a community can develop in the economic and social movements. The thesis is intended to formulate and analyze the ways and means of achieving economic and social development. Such measures are to be verified at the given condition and at a given time. The limitation of time and finance for the research of this thesis has imposed the limitation on the scope of study. A case study on Morristown is chosen to study all the related efforts of the community in economic and social development. The city governmental functions are discussed very closely indicating all the developmental programs related to the field of research. The description of Morristown community in general with the data presented with the Appendix will provide the source for further study in the future in the related fields of economic and social development,” are clearly explained in a Chapter I in the section of “Relative Opportunities for Economic and Social Development in the Developed and Underdeveloped Areas” of the world

Addressing community and economic development in rural America: trends, challenges, and opportunities

Rural development

2009 Impact Report

Summarizes the impact of the foundation's 2009 discretionary community investments in education, health, arts and culture, community and economic development, and human services, as well as its Initiative for Nonprofit Excellence. Includes plans for 2010

Grantmaking in Chicago

Provides an updated summary of the foundation's thirty years of grantmaking in the Chicago area, its focus on community and economic development in low-income neighborhoods, and its support for education and the arts. Lists representative grants

Improving Access to Healthy Foods: A Guide for Policy-Makers

Outlines how state and local policies on land use, planning, and community and economic development, as well as programs in schools and government institutions, can help in producing, marketing, and increasing access to affordable healthy food

Community outlook survey

In July 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas launched the Community Outlook Survey, a quarterly online survey to assess community and economic development in the Eleventh District of the Federal Reserve System--Texas, northern Louisiana and southern New Mexico. ; This seven-question survey focuses on changes in financial well-being for low- and moderate-income (LMI) populations as well as service providers' capacity to serve the needs of these clients. The Bank uses providers' responses to measure increases / decreases / unchanged conditions from the previous quarter as well as expectations for changes in the following quarter. The data collected will help the Dallas Fed further analyze and encourage community and economic development and fair and impartial access to credit.Economic development ; Community development ; Federal Reserve District, 11th

Measures and methods: four tenets for rural economic development in the new economy

Rural communities working to find strategies for success in today\u27s economy need to rethink the tools they are using. Brown-Graham is the executive director of the Institute for Emerging Issues and a policy fellow at the Carsey Institute. William Lambe is the associate director at the Community and Economic Development Program at the School of Government, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Aquaponics : community and economic development

Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2011.Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (p. 97-100).This thesis provides a cash flow analysis of an aquaponics system growing tilapia, perch, and lettuce in a temperate climate utilizing data collected via a case study of an aquaponics operation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Literature regarding the financial feasibility of aquaponics as a business is scant. This thesis determines that in temperate climates, tilapia and vegetable sales or, alternatively, yellow perch and vegetable sales are insufficient sources of revenue for this aquaponics system to offset regular costs when grown in small quantities and when operated as a stand-alone for-profit business. However, it is possible to reach economies of scale and to attain profitability with a yellow perch and lettuce system. Moreover, there may be ways to increase the margin of profitability or to close the gap between income and expense through such things as alternative business models, value adding, procuring things for free, and diversifying revenue streams. Any organization or individual considering an aquaponics operation should conduct careful analysis and planning to determine if profitability is possible and to understand, in the instance that an aquaponics operation is not profitable, if the community and economic development benefits of the system outweigh the costs. Keywords: aquaponics, fish, tilapia, perch, lettuce, farming, closed-loop systems, community development, economic development, cash flow analysis, sustainability, economic viability, hydroponics, recirculating aquaculture systems, integrated aquaculture, integrated agriculture, worker-owned cooperatives, agroecology.by Elisha R. Goodman.M.C.P