MACDC GOALs Initiative

Growing Opportunities, Assets, and Leaders across the Commonwealth

Community Development Corporations (CDCs) are community-controlled, nonprofit organizations that work throughout the commonwealth to build more inclusive, vibrant, and productive communities. Since their inception more than 30 years ago, Massachusetts CDCs have developed over 25,000 homes and attracted several billion dollars of investment to low- and moderate- income communities.

Since 2003, MACDC and our members have collaborated on a collective effort to revitalize and stabilize communities across the state. The MACDC GOALs Initiative - Growing Opportunities, Assets, and Leaders across the Commonwealth - sets specific numeric targets that CDCs hope to achieve in six areas of community development and then measures our annual progress toward those goals. Each year, we conduct a detailed on-line survey of our members to learn precisely what they have accomplished.

In 2012, MACDC is highlighting the success CDCs in Massachusetts acheived 2011 including the following results:

  • Engaged  over 2,095 community resident leaders to guide and shape our efforts in local neighborhoods and communities,
  • Built or preserved 1,379 affordable homes,
  • Created or preserved 1,910 job opportunities,
  • Helped 1,976 entrepreneurs start, grow or stabilize their businesses,
  • Provided economic and educational opportunities to 38,343 families with housing, jobs, training, or other services, and
  • Attracted $336 Million in private and public investments for community revitalization.