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Policy Reports

  • Historic federal investments in environmental justice could benefit your community

  • Spend on the Ground: 

    Tracking Industrial Investments and Opportunities for the Biden-Harris Administration 

  • Policy Report: Community Resilience through Small Scale Manufacturing

  • Made With Equity: Inclusive Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

  • Seeding, Starting, and Scaling Local Branding Initiatives

    A study of economic development strategies that establish manufacturing entrepreneurial ecosystems

  • State Small Business Credit Initiative

    A New Capital Tool for Revitalizing and Diversifying Manufacturing

  • Centering Federal Industrial Policy in Racial Justice & Community Development

    UMA’s First Federal Policy Agenda

  • Manufacturing’s Emerging Partners

    Faith-Informed Organizations Supporting Employment and Entrepreneurship

     

  • Building Local Economic Resilience Through Local Brand Initiatives

    With Local Progress: The National Municipal Policy Network 

     

  • Sewn Trades Manufacturing in the United States

  • Launching A Neighborhood Place-Based Entrepreneurship Center

    In partnership with InBIA

  • Makerspaces in Action

    A Community-Based Response to the Pandemic

  • Racial Equity and Advancing the Future of Manufacturing

    Co-Authored with The Century Foundation

  • Creating and Preserving Industrial Space: Mission Driven Development Toolkit

    Co-authored with the Association for Neighborhood Development

  • Industry and Inclusion 

     

  • All About the Jobs:

    Mission Driven Industrial Developers Anchor Manufacturers & Support Local Economies

  • Pathways to Patient Capital

    Multi-Stakeholder Approaches to Capital Deployment

  • Moving Towards Equitable Maker Ecosystems

    The Role of Local Branding Organizations

  • Advancing Equitable Innovation in Houston

    Local Strategies to Support Urban Manufacturing and Inclusive Growth

  • Equitable Capital Access Models

    WITH LOCAL PROGRESS: THE NATIONAL MUNICIPAL POLICY NETWORK

  • An Urban Revival

    HOW LAND USE TOOLS & REAL ESTATE STRATEGIES ARE FUELING THE RESURGENCE OF LIGHT MANUFACTURING IN GREATER BOSTON

  • Making, Scaling, and Inclusion

    Authored with PolicyLink and Pratt Center for Community Development

  • Discovering Your City’s Maker Economy

    With National League of Cities, ETSY, & Recast City

  • Artisan Zoning

    WITH LOCAL PROGRESS: THE NATIONAL MUNICIPAL POLICY NETWORK

  • Equitable Innovation Economies

    Local strategies for a more inclusive innovation economy

  • State of Urban Manufacturing

    Understanding the industrial ecosystem in six U.S. Cities.

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