Community Benefits: Leveraging Partnerships for Successful Development High-quality development is the key to transforming local economies and creating shared prosperity. Community Benefits: Leveraging Partnerships for Successful Development identifies key lessons and best practices for creating effective community benefits partnerships with developers. <more>

Community Benefits: Practical Tools for Proactive Development Local elected and appointed officials are critical allies in campaigns to ensure that development opens doors to opportunity and greater equality for urban residents. The important—often courageous—work of these officials is the basis for Community Benefits: Practical Tools for Proactive Development. <more>

Residential Weatherization Residential weatherization presents a perfect opportunity to create an industry that supports low-income communities, workers and the environment. Read more on how billions of dollars are being made available for weatherization and energy efficiency projects across the county. <more>

A New Urban Agenda for America As we prepare for new leadership in America, we can't let the opportunity to rebuild the middle class pass us by. Our federal policy agenda builds on Partner organizations’ work at the regional level to create pathways out of poverty through public and private investment, providing recommendations for increasing the supply of middle class jobs throughout the economy, in construction, service, retail, hospitality and logistics. <more>

Newest Report Documents Local Hire Successes The Partnership’s newest report, "Making Development Work for Local Residents: Local Hire Programs and Implementation Strategies That Serve Low-Income Communities," documents our movement’s success in winning hundreds of new job opportunities for local residents. <more>

Unprecedented Census Data Report Release Effort a Huge Success On August 26, 2008, ten organizations in the Partnership for Working Families network released reports on annual census data regarding poverty, wages and income in their local communities. The reports highlighted these findings and connected them to real efforts on the ground to lift up working people and their communities by improving job quality and job access and developing public policies that establish a stronger economic baseline for workers and their families. <more>

Base Building: Organizing for Community Benefits in the Reuse of Closed Military Installations Base Building: Organizing for Community Benefits in the Reuse of Closed Military Installations provides concrete information on organizing communities to get more benefits out of military base reuse. Base Building includes a detailed overview of the base reuse process and a discussion of the steps you need to take to attach community benefits principles to the base reuse plans in your community. <more>

Rebuilding the Base: Lessons from Four California Communities' Efforts to Reuse Closed Military Installations Rebuilding the Base, a new report by the Partnership, reveals how communities are devastated by base closures and are often unable to replace the number or quality of jobs lost. The report also highlights ways that communities can better harness investment in public land at military bases to create good-paying jobs, affordable housing, and other community benefits. <more>