Funding: The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Summary: This grant supported the production of an edited book, Organizing Access to Capital: Advocacy and the Democratization of Financial published by Temple University Press and two public forums to examine the role of community organizing and related advocacy efforts to increase mortgage and small business lending in distressed urban communities. One forum, sponsored by Rep. Jan Schakowsky (Dem-IL) was held on Capitol Hill and the other was held in Chicago as part of the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Woodstock Institute, a community reinvestment research organization.