Resources

Our collection of research and reports showcases the work of CoLab and the network of individuals and groups we work with. We also provide tools, papers, and other materials to support practitioners seeking to innovate in their local contexts.

Tools | Project Reports | Other

Tools

Featured

Navigating Tradeoffs in Building an Equitable LTSS Social Insurance Program

Growing And Supporting LTSS Worker Co-Ops

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports: Lessons from Germany, Japan, and Sweden

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports: Case Studies & Lessons from the U.S.

A Primer on Financing Models, report

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports

A Primer on Financing Models, report

5-Year Report: Transformation in Moments of Disruptive Change

participatory action research, report

Mel King Community Fellowship: Leaders in NY Government Report

participatory action research, report

People Focused Research : Participatory Action Research in Canarsie, Flatlands, and Flatbush (2018)

participatory action research, report

People Focused Research: Creating Health in Brooklyn - Participatory Action Research in Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East Flatbush (2017)

participatory action research, report

participatory action research

Proposed Health and Wealth Interventions in Brownsville and East New York (2016)

participatory action research

event, a future grows in brookly, interfaith

The Future Grows in Brooklyn: How the Fight to Save Interfaith Medical Center Launched a Movement for Wellness-Based Development (video replay)

event, a future grows in brookly, interfaith

report, CLT, Community Land Trust, lessons, field

A Guide to Transformative Land Strategies: Lessons from the Field

report, CLT, Community Land Trust, lessons, field

interfaith, report

INTERFAITH REPORT - Caring for today planning for tomorrow

interfaith, report

PAR, lexicon, taxonomy, terms, art

PAR Lexicons

PAR, lexicon, taxonomy, terms, art

Taking Freedom: Understanding Structural Injustice

Participatory Action Research, students, PAR class, PAR Maps

Participatory Action Research Maps

Participatory Action Research, students, PAR class, PAR Maps

Reed Jordan, Jessica Wolff, Erina Keefe, Jonathan Tarleton, Lawrence Barriner II, Danya Littlefield

Personal Theory of Practice Curriculum

Reed Jordan, Jessica Wolff, Erina Keefe, Jonathan Tarleton, Lawrence Barriner II, Danya Littlefield

Katherine Mella, Nicholas Shatan, Yorman Nuñez

Development without Displacement Toolkit

Katherine Mella, Nicholas Shatan, Yorman Nuñez

APROXIMACIÓN DEMOCRACIA ECONOMICA / Economic Democracy Framework

James Gustave Speth, J. Phillip Thompson

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

James Gustave Speth, J. Phillip Thompson

Allegra Williams, Maggie Coblentz, Kenneth Bailey, Jessica Blickley, Douglas Burnham, Emily Cohen, Erik DeLuca, Katie Diamond, Rachel Falcone, Michelle Fine, Jocelyn Frank, Terra Graziani, Matt Green, Elisa Hamilton, Krista Harper, Dey Hernandez, Josie Holtzman, Aurie Hsu, Umi Hsu, W.F. Umi Hsu, Salvador Jiménez-Flores, Nathan John, Steve Kemper, Beau Kenyon, Isaac Kestenbaum, Jonas Kirkegaard, Lori Lobenstine, Stella Aguirre McGregor, Liz Ogbu, Anthony Peña, James Rojas, Katy Rubin, Catherine Sands, Katherine Shozawa, Jennifer Stoever, Brett Stoudt, María Elena Torre, Marc Weinblatt

Listening to the City Handbook

Alison Coffey

Assessing Community Innovation Capacity in the Amazon Piedmont Region

Alison Coffey

Lorlene Hoyt, Alyssa Bryson, Patricio Belloy, Monique Ching, Jonathan Diaz

Emprendizaje: Educación Superior para el Emprendimiento, el Aprendizaje y la Inteligencia Colectiva en el Sur de Chile / Emprendizaje Higher Education for Entrepreneurship, Learning, and Collective...

Lorlene Hoyt, Alyssa Bryson, Patricio Belloy, Monique Ching, Jonathan Diaz

Esthefany Castillo, Breonne DeDecker, Nene Igietseme, Nick Iuviene, Liliam Knorr, Sandra Lobo, Allison Manuel, Katherine Mella, Yorman Nuñez, Nicole Salaza, Rachael Tanner, Maggie Tishman, Dara Yaskil

Economic Democracy Training Series

Alison Coffey, Jenna Harvey, Asier Ansorena, Heitor Calixto, Luana Clarice, Alberto Crespo, Luiz Ernandes, Mateus Henrique, Jose Erberson Lino, Elias Lino

Research from the Periphery Toolkit

Alison Coffey, Jenna Harvey, Asier Ansorena, Heitor Calixto, Luana Clarice, Alberto Crespo, Luiz Ernandes, Mateus Henrique, Jose Erberson Lino, Elias Lino

Pesquisa desde a Periferia

Alison Coffey, Jenna Harvey, Asier Ansorena, Heitor Calixto, Luana Clarice, Alberto Crespo, Luiz Ernandes, Mateus Henrique, Jose Erberson Lino, Elias Lino

J. Phillip Thompson

Phil Thompson on the Historical Fight for Civil and Economic Rights

J. Phillip Thompson

Brendan McEwen, John Miller

Local Governments' Role in Energy Project Financing: A Guide to Financing Tools for the Commercial Real Estate Sector

Brendan McEwen, John Miller

Karl Seidman, Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon

Transforming Energy Management Markets: A Strategy Development Guide for Economic Development and Sustainability Practitioners

Karl Seidman, Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon

Dayna Cunningham

Citizenship and Governance for a Five Thousand Pound Life

Dayna Cunningham

Project Reports

Featured

Navigating Tradeoffs in Building an Equitable LTSS Social Insurance Program

Growing And Supporting LTSS Worker Co-Ops

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports: Lessons from Germany, Japan, and Sweden

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports: Case Studies & Lessons from the U.S.

A Primer on Financing Models, report

Centering Equity in Long-Term Services and Supports

A Primer on Financing Models, report

5-Year Report: Transformation in Moments of Disruptive Change

participatory action research, report

Mel King Community Fellowship: Leaders in NY Government Report

participatory action research, report

People Focused Research : Participatory Action Research in Canarsie, Flatlands, and Flatbush (2018)

participatory action research, report

People Focused Research: Creating Health in Brooklyn - Participatory Action Research in Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and East Flatbush (2017)

participatory action research, report

participatory action research

Proposed Health and Wealth Interventions in Brownsville and East New York (2016)

participatory action research

Lorlene Hoyt, Alyssa Bryson, Patricio Belloy, Monique Ching, Jonathan Diaz

Brendan McEwen, John Miller

Local Governments' Role in Energy Project Financing: A Guide to Financing Tools for the Commercial Real Estate Sector

Brendan McEwen, John Miller

Karl Seidman, Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon

Transforming Energy Management Markets: A Strategy Development Guide for Economic Development and Sustainability Practitioners

Karl Seidman, Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon

J. Phillip Thompson, Ofer Lerner, Nick Iuviene, Dayna Cunningham, Jody Lee Cornish, Jeffrey Hollender, The Fall 2013 Bronx Planning Studio Students

Development Study for the Bronx Cooperative Development Initiative: A Model for Economic Transformation

J. Phillip Thompson, Ofer Lerner, Nick Iuviene, Dayna Cunningham, Jody Lee Cornish, Jeffrey Hollender, The Fall 2013 Bronx Planning Studio Students

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Karl Seidman, Tara Aubuchon, Emily Brown, Cathy Polasky, Liz Thorstensen

Transforming Economic Development: Integrating Environmental Sustainability & Equity into Practice

Karl Seidman, Tara Aubuchon, Emily Brown, Cathy Polasky, Liz Thorstensen

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Alyssa Bryson, Paul DeManche, Sara Hess

Community Tourism as an Economic Development Strategy: Analysis and Recommendations for Puerto Rico's Route 123 Region

Xavier de Souza Briggs, Alyssa Bryson, Paul DeManche, Sara Hess

Karl Seidman, Drew Pierson

Financing Urban District Energy Systems: Trends and Policy Implications for Portland

Karl Seidman, Drew Pierson

CoLab Green Economic Development Initiative

Operational Energy Savings and Economic Development: Growing Markets for Building Energy Saving Services

CoLab Green Economic Development Initiative

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Aly Bryson, Other partners

HBCU Sustainability Action Plan Road Map

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Aly Bryson, Other partners

Eric Mackres, Elena Alschuler, Amy Stitely, Erin Brandt

The Role of Local Actors as Energy Efficiency Implementation Partners: Case Studies and a Review of Trends

Eric Mackres, Elena Alschuler, Amy Stitely, Erin Brandt

Urban Planning graduate students from MIT and the University of Puerto Rico

Future of the Piedras River Website

Urban Planning graduate students from MIT and the University of Puerto Rico

Lawrence Practicum Participants

Taking Back Lawrence: Cleaning and Transforming the Canals and Alleyways

Lawrence Practicum Participants

Cartagena Practicum Participants

Cartagena Practicum Website

Cartagena Practicum Participants

Anna Kunti Pratiwi, Hendra Agus, Shamsul Bahar Shajian, Ridzuan Ismail, Kevin Yee Seh Kian

Sustainable Management of Organic Wet Waste in Developing Cities

Anna Kunti Pratiwi, Hendra Agus, Shamsul Bahar Shajian, Ridzuan Ismail, Kevin Yee Seh Kian

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Uyen Le, Sarah Nusser, The Leveraging The Stimulus Project Team

Leveraging The Stimulus: How to Retrofit Communities To Build Equity & Sustainability

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Uyen Le, Sarah Nusser, The Leveraging The Stimulus Project Team

Jacquelyn Dadakis

Energy Efficiency and Utility Decoupling

Jacquelyn Dadakis

Anna Livia Brand, Karl Seidman

Assessing Post-Katrina Recovery in New Orleans: Recommendations for Equitable Rebuilding

Anna Livia Brand, Karl Seidman

Other Resources

Featured

event, a future grows in brookly, interfaith

The Future Grows in Brooklyn: How the Fight to Save Interfaith Medical Center Launched a Movement for Wellness-Based Development (video replay)

event, a future grows in brookly, interfaith

Taking Freedom: Understanding Structural Injustice

APROXIMACIÓN DEMOCRACIA ECONOMICA / Economic Democracy Framework

James Gustave Speth, J. Phillip Thompson

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

James Gustave Speth, J. Phillip Thompson

J. Phillip Thompson

Phil Thompson on the Historical Fight for Civil and Economic Rights

J. Phillip Thompson

Dayna Cunningham

Citizenship and Governance for a Five Thousand Pound Life

Dayna Cunningham

Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon, Harriette Crawford, Micah Davison, Karl Seidman, Other

Green Infrastructure and Economic Development: Strategies to Foster Opportunity for Marginalized Communities

Brendan McEwen, Tara Aubuchon, Harriette Crawford, Micah Davison, Karl Seidman, Other

Farzana Serang, J. Phillip Thompson, Ted Howard

The Anchor Mission, Leveraging the Power of Anchor Institutions to Build Community Wealth: A Case Study of University Hospitals Vision 2010 Program. Cleveland, Ohio.

Farzana Serang, J. Phillip Thompson, Ted Howard

Dayna Cunningham, Penda Hair

Leveraging the Opportunity of the The Affordable Care Act: A Hospital-Funded Community Organizing and Planning Process

Dayna Cunningham, Penda Hair

Eric Mackres, Elena Alschuler, Amy Stitely, Erin Brandt

The Role of Local Actors as Energy Efficiency Implementation Partners: Case Studies and a Review of Trends

Eric Mackres, Elena Alschuler, Amy Stitely, Erin Brandt

DUSP-DUyOT parallel workshop

Sustainable and Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization

DUSP-DUyOT parallel workshop

Rebecca Buell, Ruth Mayne

Integrating Social Equity in Carbon Reduction Initiatives: A Snapshot of Issues for Community Organisations and Local Authorities

Rebecca Buell, Ruth Mayne

Karl Seidman

Prospects and Practice in Green Economic Development

Karl Seidman

Nicholas Iuviene, Amy Stitely, Lorlene Hoyt

Sustainable Economic Democracy: Worker Cooperatives for the 21st Century

Nicholas Iuviene, Amy Stitely, Lorlene Hoyt

Democracia Económica Sostenible: Cooperativas de trabajadores para el siglo XXI

Nicholas Iuviene, Amy Stitely, Lorlene Hoyt

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Stephanie Ritoper

2010 MIT Cooperatives Reading Group

Carlos Espinoza-Toro, Stephanie Ritoper

Benjamin Brandin, Amy Stitely, Lorlene Hoyt

City-Scale Retrofits: Learning from Portland and Oakland

Benjamin Brandin, Amy Stitely, Lorlene Hoyt

Gayle Christiansen, Amy Stitley, Lorlene Hoyt

Strengthening Local Economies and Civic Life: The Untapped Power of Small Businesses

Gayle Christiansen, Amy Stitley, Lorlene Hoyt

Uyen Le

On-Bill Repayment: Understanding and Advocating for an On-Bill Repayment System

Uyen Le

Dean Baker, Deborah Bey, Jose Calderon, Karen Chapple, Kevin Chavers, Dayna Cunningham, Anita Earls, James K. Galbraith, Marshall Ganz, David Geltner, Edward G. Goetz, Lani Guinier, Gerald D. Jaynes, Deborah Kobes, Judith Layzer, Bob Master, Frederick W. McKinney, Larry Parks, Richard Raya, Joel Rogers, Victor Rubin, Liz Ryan, Timothy L. Simons, Mark Soler, Phil Thompson, Gerald Torres

Innovation and Equity Can Transform America

Ceasar McDowell, Claudia Canepa, Sebastiao Ferriera

Reflective Practice: An Approach for Expanding Your Learning Frontiers

Ceasar McDowell, Claudia Canepa, Sebastiao Ferriera

Resources

Tools | Project Reports | Other

Tools

Project Reports

Other Resources

Community Innovators LabDepartment of Urban Studies and Planning Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBuilding/Room 9-23877 Massachusetts AvenueCambridge, MA 02139

Community Innovators Lab
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building/Room 9-238
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02139