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Welcome to our April Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter. This month, we have a host of exciting updates and features to bring to you:

• Democracy Collaborative co-founder Gar Alperovitz releases his latest book, What Then Must We Do?, and an accompanying film, The Next American Revolution.
• May 8th event in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presenting the findings of our case study: The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth.
• World Bank Report Warns that Climate Change Will Adversely Affect Poor
• United Steelworkers Bring Mondragon Cooperative Model to the Rust Belt
• Community Organizing Creates Jobs and Stabilizes Communities
• Report Shines a Light on Wasteful State Relocation Subsidies
• CW Interview: Rob Witherell
  
• Mosaic Solar
  
• USDA Food Access Research Atlas
  

Welcome to our latest www.Community-Wealth.org e-newsletter, with a new look for 2013. In this winter edition, we bring you a host of new developments and site features:

• The Democracy Collaborative and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT will release the findings of our case study: The Anchor Mission: Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth.
• The third business in Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperative network, Green City Growers, has planted its first crop of leafy greens. 
• Walter Wright of the Cleveland Foundation and I led a “Local First” webinar for our friends at BALLE.
• We interview Blake Jones, Co-Founder, President, and CEO of Namasté Solar.
• We profile our twenty-ninth community wealth city: Jacksonville, Florida.
• History Offers Blueprint for Reversing Plutocrat Control
• Cooperatives Promote Sustainable Future
• Manual Helps Immigrants Form Worker Cooperatives
• Postal Savings System Would Benefit Unbanked
• ICA Calls for a Global Co-Operative Future
• Research Shows Rapid Growth of Green Revolving Funds
• Podcast Showcases Evergreen Cooperatives
• ALEC Policies Fail to Promote Economic Growth
• Urban Agriculture Revitalizes Communities
• Documentary Showcases Strengths, Challenges of Worker Cooperatives
• Report Presents Framework for Equitably Greening Human Capital
• Paper Calls on Feds to Promote Anchor Partnerships
• Metrics Provide Tool to Assess Transit-Oriented Development
• Manual Identifies Ways to Confront Debt
• Penn’s Netter Center Celebrates 20th Anniversary
• Be A Localist
• Restaurant Opportunities Centers United
• Operation New Hope
• JEA (formerly Jacksonville Electric Authority)

• Forces for Good Highlights Successful Nonprofit Practices
• UN Study Highlights Pathway to a Sustainable Economy
• Demand for Urban Agriculture Sites Increases in San Francisco
• Los Angeles Case Study Provides Road Map for Effective Movement Building
• 2012 Report Calls for Broad Policy Change that Promotes Asset Building
• Community Wealth Approach Leads to Economic Revival in the Basque Country
• Surveys Demonstrate the Strength of the Co-op Sector during the Recession
• Clean Tech Industry Proves its Ability to Create Jobs
• Building Civic Infrastructure is Key to Creating a Resilient Economy
• Report Highlights Federal Policies that Foster Asset Building
• Communities Embrace City Role in Reclaiming their Energy Sources
• Islanders Partner with Credit Union and Receive Substantial Control and New Branch
• Report Claims that CDFIs are More Effective as Regional Networks
• Comprehensive Guide Offers Advocacy Tools for Increasing Affordable Housing
• Job Guarantee Model Stresses Role of Nonprofits in Creating Jobs
• Interviews with Community Wealth Builder Raquel Pinderhughes
• 28th in Our Continuing Series of Community-Wealth Cities: San Francisco, California
• National Organizations Stress Co-ops Ability to Scale-up
• Ohio Conference Focuses on Employee Ownership's Role in Improving the Economy
• Community Reinvestment Conference Advocates for Equitable Local Solutions
• BRIDGE Housing
• The Cooperative Teach-In
• Delancey Street Foundation
• Food Co-op Initiative
• New Economies Institute
• We the Owners: Employees Expanding the American Dream

• Occupy Movement Voices Call for a More Equitable and Democratic Future
• New Economy Working Group Offers a Main Street Fix for Wall Street's Failures
• Impact Investing Makes Positive Dent in Social, Environmental Issues
• Occupy Movement Invites Ideas for Strengthening Democratic, Participatory Life
• Hollender Offers Firms 10 Steps To Meet their Social, Environmental Obligations
• International Year of Cooperatives May Usher in New Financial Support To Start Co-ops
• Concentrated Poverty Growth in 2000s Erases Positive Gains of the 1990s
• Movement Leaders and Philanthropic Funders Need To Co-Create New Metrics
• Residential Segregation of Families by Income Doubles from 1970 to 2009
• Six Cities Tackle the Foreclosure Crisis To Build More Resilient Communities
• Study Shows Which Corporations Paid Their Fair Share in Taxes from 2008 to 2010
• Interviews with Community Wealth Builders: Paul Hazen
• The twentieth-sixth in our continuing series of profiles of Community Wealth Cities: Houston, Texas
• Community Wealth Builders Talk Strategies for Increasing Equity
• University Leaders Gather To Advance University-Community Partnerships
• The Alliance for Multicultural Community Services
• Big Ideas for Jobs
• Burnett Staffing Specialists
• Econ 4
• USA International Year of Cooperatives