Publications And Factsheets

An Engine of Opportunity: A User’s Guide to Advocate for Transportation Equity in the 2009 Recovery Act provides a roadmap for advocates to ensure stimulus-funded public transportation projects bring hope and economic opportunity to millions of Americans hit first and worst by the economic downturn.

Bringing Home the Green Recovery: A User’s Guide to the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act offers information and ideas for using and securing recovery dollars to help expand opportunity in low-income communities and communities of color.


Investing in place is not just investing in a physical place. It means investing in people in the context of place so they improve their circumstance, and the place becomes a foundation that they can build on.

(from Ending Poverty and Building Equity in the Federal Budget, a conference call series)
- Angela Glover Blackwell, CEO and Founder