Our Publications

Community Economic Development & Healthcare Playbook

2020 NACEDA Family Portrait
NACEDA, 2020
Annual report of state and regional community development associations in the NACEDA network ― their budgets, priorities, cross-sector partnerships, advocacy, and member services.



Redlining 
The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Studies, April 2019
NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff and scholar Gregory D. Squires co-author this piece on the recent emergence of "reverse redlining" as a major U.S. problem.



State Policy to Support Creative Placemaking
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco - Community Development Innovation Review, November 2019
Co-authored by NACEDA Executive Director Frank Woodruff and Membership Director Jeremy Brownlee with Kelly Barsdate and Ryan Stubbs of the National Assembly of State Art Agencies 



Talking Values: Soulful Conversations within Community Economic Development
NACEDA 2018
A series of essays and responses to provoke and prompt discussion in five topic areas including Organizing, Scale & Accountability, Racial Equity, Identity, and Emerging Leaders.




Historical Publications


Community Benefit and CRA
NACEDA and Community Catalyst, 2016
A Side-By-Side Comparison of Nonprofit Hospital and Bank Regulation.

Financial Empowerment in a Thriving Community Development Network
NACEDA, 2015
Report discussing ideas and inspiration from a descriptive assessment of NACEDA members' financial empowerment and asset building activities

State and Local Affordable Housing/Community Development Associations: A 2014 Family Portrait
NACEDA, 2014
Census of NACEDA member associations, including governance, budget, membership, online presence, programs, and the future.

Rising Above: Community Economic Development in a Changing Landscape
NACEDA, June 2010
Report measures the quantitative achievements of community-based development organizations.