Community Development
Community Development Grantmaking Research Debuts
What is the geographic distribution of grants that support community and economic development (CED) from large foundations? This Partners Update article summarizes Atlanta and Philadelphia Fed research on CED grantmaking to communities, which features a new data tool.Read more
ECONversations Explores Small City Economics
More than 10 million residents of the South live in small cities and metropolitan areas with populations under 500,000. This August 24 webcast addressed the present and future of economic growth and development in these small cities.Read more
Following the Money in Community and Economic Development (CED)
Foundation grants are an important source of funding in the CED field, but are small and economically distressed metro areas at a disadvantage? To find out, the Atlanta and Philadelphia Feds coauthored a paper and developed an interactive data tool to analyze grant funding across hundreds of U.S. cities.Read more
UPDATES & OTHER NEWS
August 24, 2016
Concentrated Poverty in the Southeast: A Tale of Two Regions
Concentrated Poverty in the Southeast: A Tale of Two Regions
How have patterns of concentrated poverty changed in the Southeast since the Great Recession? Partners Update previews a student paper on the topic.
August 3, 2016
Webinar Probes Fed 2015 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
Webinar Probes Fed 2015 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking
Join experts from the Federal Reserve Board and New York University as they discuss the results of the survey on August 11. Register for the webinar in Partners Update.
August 3, 2016
Join the ECONversation on Small City Economic Dynamism
Join the ECONversation on Small City Economic Dynamism
The August 24 live webcast will discuss the Atlanta Fed's interactive data tool on small cities. Will Lambe, senior community and economic development adviser, will lead the discussion. Learn more in Partners Update.
FedCommunities.org
Federal Reserve community development resources promoting people, place, practice, and small business.
Connecting Communities
The Connecting Communities® webinar series is a Federal Reserve System initiative intended to provide a national audience with timely insights and information on emerging and important community and economic development topics.
Community Development Perspectives Report
This report provides an overview of the Federal Reserve's recent community development (CD) efforts to help address barriers to economic growth and promote fair and informed access to financial markets.
