Chicago Initiative Fights Blight and Unemployment
The Cook County Land Bank Authority earlier this year put 4,437 vacant properties up for sale. Many were homes lost to foreclosure during the recession, and located on the south and west sides of Chicago — where much of the city’s gun violence occurs. In...
Measuring Community and Household Economic Conditions
One of the fundamental measures for CED officials to track is a community’s economic condition. This issue of measuring economic condition, whether for an entire community or a single household, has taken on a central role in policy discussions recently, ranging from...
The Impact: Software for Social Good
The Impact: Software for Social Good By Joel Riciputi, VP Marketing posted in Benetech on July 6, 2017 at 9:31am Share: Elise Livingston on Microsoft’s commitment to accessibility When we kicked off our blog series, The Impact, we talked about spotlighting partners...