Newsletter Archive

Dear Colleagues and Partners, This fall, we had the opportunity to attend Groundbreaking or Ribbon Cutting events for three projects that co-locate child care and affordable housing: Brookview House, the Elizabeth Sto...

Dear Friends, Summer has just ended but it’s been a fruitful one. As you’ll see in our newsletter, the highlight of the year for affordable housing production and preservation occurred on July 18th with the annou...

Dear Colleagues and Partners, This Spring, we hosted our "Let's Take It Outside" training on outdoor play spaces at the Mass Audubon's Boston Nature Center, which has been a great partner as we work with nonprofit ear...

Dear Friends, Happy Spring! These past few months have been a particularly exciting time for CEDAC, as we’ve had a chance to look back at 40 years of strengthening communities in Massachusetts.  We culminated this ...

Dear Colleagues and Partners, We are enjoying a busy 2019, with many exciting projects in development and with early education as a popular topic of discussion at the national and local levels. At the end of 2018, we ...

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! We’re hopeful that 2019 will be as productive a year in community development as 2018 was. So as we head into this new year, we thought we’d take a few minutes to celebrate the achiev...

Dear Colleagues and Partners, Children’s Investment Fund celebrates a momentous year! In 2018, we: became a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) and received federal funding through the CDFI...

Dear Friends, Happy Fall! The days may be growing shorter now, but the summer months proved to be productive ones in the community development sector.  This season’s newsletter celebrates the one year anniversary o...

Dear Colleagues and Partners, Since our last newsletter, much has happened for the Fund. We became a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), the Early Education and Out-of-School Time Capital Fun...

Dear Friends, As you will see in our Summer newsletter, the hard work and dedication of our community development partners in the Commonwealth has resulted in numerous events held to highlight the achievement of proje...

Dear Colleagues and Partners, In March, I had the opportunity to take part in a national discussion on early childhood facilities hosted by the Bipartisan Policy Center in DC. It was wonderful to connect with other or...

Dear Friends, It may be hard to tell from the weather, but winter is coming to a close.  Over these past few months, CEDAC has assisted our public and private partners in furthering the goals of the Commonwealth’s ...