Community Organizing & Leadership Development

In partnership with Mass. Association of CDCs, LISC has operated the Ricanne Hadrian Initiative for Community Organizing  (RHICO) since 1997.  RHICO helps CDCs stay connected and re-connect with community residents to set local community development agendas.  RHICO seeks to introduce community organizing to some CDCs and to assist CDCs in integrating their community organizing work with their real estate development and other program work.  RHICO provides multi-year grants, direct technical assistance to grantees, training, peer learning sessions and one-time grants to help CDCs become effective community organizers within a community development framework.

For more on RHICO, please go here.