Strategy One: Support Members

Increase Access to Capital

• Secured $137 million by coordinating a consortium of 13 of its members to apply for federal funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Neighborhood Stabilization Program Round 2. The funds will revitalize neighborhoods in eight states and the District of Columbia negatively impacted by foreclosures and abandoned properties.
  
  
• Secured approximately $6 million by supporting nine member organizations to apply for funding from the Community Economic Development and Jobs Opportunities for Low-Income grant programs under the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services These grants will create or save more than 365 jobs.
  
  
• Secured $3.7 million through the Broadband Technology Opportunity Program to establish the Latino Tech-Net, a network of 17 public computer centers across 11 cities and towns that will provide technology access and training for low-to moderate income Latinos.
  
  
• Secured $550,000 by supporting four member organizations to submit 13 grant applications to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to improve community facilities in rural low-income communities
  
  
• Connected members with a wide range of private and corporate funders resulting in more than $500,000 in grants
  
  
• Granted $360,000 to organizations in both urban and rural communities to strengthen organizational capacity and specific asset building projects, including consumer education, small business development, cooperative businesses and affordable housing development.

Build Organizational Capacity and Project Readiness

• Provided technical assistance to more than 45 organizations, in 21 states and the District of Columbia in support of a wide range of affordable housing and economic development project.
  
  
• Developed the strategic systems for the collaboration and management of the NSP Consortium and the Latino Tech-Net Project.
  
  
• Engaged 12 member organizations in three year evaluations of economic development projects funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Organize Consortia and Peer to Peer Learning

• Implemented a peer support effort through which consortium members support each other's projects, allowing them to engage one another in problem solving, capacity building and disseminating best practices.
  
  
• Operated the Border Community Development Collaborative to advance affordable housing and economic development efforts in the U.S.-Mexican border region.
  
  
• Developed a program of grant-making and technical assistance for asset building organizations in emerging Latino communities in the Northwest area and across the Deep South.

Strategy Two: Create a National Forum

Host National Conferences and Regional Summits

• Organized an annual national conference where all NALCAB members have the unique opportunity to connect with their peers from around the nation. The agenda typically includes a combination of nationally-recognized presenters, training opportunities, and plenary panels, attracting executive level asset building practitioners, funders and public policy makers from across the country.
  
  
• Organized the border community and economic development summit which provided community development practitioners, funders and policy makers the opportunity to address economic development and recovery in the border region with specific focus on the colonia communities.

Maintain a National Network and Inform Stakeholders

• Engaged with federal departments to deepen understanding between policy makers and practitioners in the field.
  
  
• Collaborated with other national organizations to shape messaging and practices that better reflect the needs and realities of asset building practitioners.

Encourages Best Practices and Fosters Innovation

• Encouraged and documented best practices and accomplishments of our members to showcase culturally-relevant and effective methods of service delivery to communities of color.
  
  
• Nominated members for national and industry awards and has leveraged media attention that has profiled their work.

Strategy Three: Investing in Leadership

Provide Professional Training and Development

• Provided trainings by webinar and in classroom settings to more than 150 practitioners on resource development planning, responding to specific federal Notices of Funding Availability and supporting Latino entrepreneurship.

Support the NALCAB Colegio: A Fellowship for Leaders in Community and Economic Development

• Launched the inaugural class of the NALCAB Colegio Fellowship, which includes eleven fellows from across the country. This class of fellows will graduate in 2011 at NALCAB's National Conference in Washington, DC.

Implement a Community Development Internship

• Provided paid internships to 10 college seniors and graduate students from local universities. NALCAB hired four of these interns to fill full-time, entry level positions.