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NEW! Urban Horizons: Spring 2009
Intervale Green Sets New Standards in Affordable Housing

 

 

Back to School 2008
INSIDE: Spotlight on Jordan Guerra (read more here)

Winter 2008

 

 

WHEDCo's Research and Evaluation Department

Home-based Childcare Microenterprise Network Report:
This report details how WHEDCo's Home-based Childcare Microenterprise Network is a proven, cost-effective business development model that helps women with difficult prospects for finding traditional employment to support their families through home-based microenterprises. Established 13 years ago, the program enables women to generate sustainable earnings as successful entrepreneurs; provides quality childcare in a home-based setting tailored to family needs; and, creates greater accountability and monitoring for the health and safety of children.

South Bronx Community Fitness Assessment Report:

As part of the New York City Food & Fitness Partnership. WHEDCo conducted a two-part assessment investigating community residents' awareness of, and access to fitness opportunities in 2008. The findings from WHEDCo’s South Bronx Community Fitness Assessment help shed light on how to better help South Bronx residents meet their health and fitness needs through education, advocacy and resource development.

 

• Evaluation Report Youth Winter 2008
• Key Finding Youth Winter 2008
• Report Brief Youth Winter 2008

Reports & Testimony

• News from the Bronx (October 2008), Nancy Biberman, WHEDCo President and Founder
• Spanning the Neighborhood: The bridge between housing and supports for families, Center for the New York City Affairs, The New School
• Bronx By Design: High End Architecture Inspires Low Income Home-Making (program brochure).
• Unrealized Gains:How Workforce Organizations Can Put Money in the Pockets of Low Wage Workers. By Mae Watson Grote. Working Ventures: a publication of Public/Private Ventures. November 2004.
• Setting the Standard for American Working Families. A Report by Wider Opportunities for Women
• Linking Workforce Development and Economic Development: A Practitioner's View from the South Bronx. By Nancy Biberman
• Aspen Institute Study of Training Effectiveness in Microenterprise. Executive Summary
• Family Child Care: Peer to Peer Exchange, A policy briefing from the Ms. Foundation for Women, December 1998.
• Looking Back to Where We are Going, a report to the Annie Casey Foundation on community based employment strategies. April, 2000.

Published Articles by Nancy Biberman

• Saving Energy, Affordable Housing--and the Planet
  On the Retrofit of Urban Horizons. Gotham Gazette July 2008.
• Beauty in the Bronx
  On the building of Urban Horizons. Shelterforce March/April 2004.
• Rebuilding Can Become a Lesson in Diversity and Democracy
  On civic participation in the Lower Manhattan redevelopment process. Gotham Gazette 3-25-02
• Pause, Reflect, Respect
  Reflections on the Lower Manhattan redevelopment process. Gotham Gazette 11-26-01.
• The Devil is in the Details
  On the Office of Faith Based Initiatives. Gotham Gazette 12-12-01