Minority Contracting
Minority contracting is a set of tools to be accessed by various stakeholders in order to benefit local business and development in low income and minority neighborhoods. Designed to address disparities felt by minorities...
Resident-Owned CDFI’s
Resident-Owned Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) include Community Development Credit Unions (CDCUs) and Community and Individual Investment Corporations (CIICs) and aid in community development by generating and maintaining wealth within the community. Community residents,...
Inclusionary Zoning
The IZ tool demonstrates how communities can use zoning to promote mixed-income communities. It allows for communities to counter the declining public sector investment in affordable housing, and thus enable low-income and moderate-income families...
Community Mapping
The Community Mapping tool allows communities of all sizes, cultural backgrounds, and socioeconomic status to promote equitable development. Community maps can be hand drawn or computer generated, and provide the ability to share and...
Community Reinvestment Act
The CRA is an online tool that low-income communities can use to secure loans for home construction, purchase, and improvement; for establishing neighborhood businesses; and for supporting community institutions. Some considerations for this tool...
Promising Practices
This toolkit out of Nashville is a compilation of programs and policies that are ideas, practices, and evidence-based practices to prevent obesity and create healthier communities. The goal of the database is to provide...
Equitable Development Toolkit: Equitable Food Hubs
Food hubs are an effective strategy for connecting smaller farms to larger markets, and can positively impact the local economy and community health. A food hub is a physical space, and requires significant planning...
Equitable Development Toolkit: Access to Healthy Food
This tool from PolicyLink serves as an introduction to four tools in the Equitable Development Toolkit— Grocery Store Development, Corner Stores, Farmers’ Markets, and Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens—that help low-income and communities of...