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Across the United States, nonprofit cultural heritage organizations serve communities by helping people to remember their shared experiences and aspirations, building and sustaining a sense of community through fairs, folklife programs, public celebrations of music, food, and holidays. This brief uses NCCS Form 990 data to examine the finances and programs of these organizations. It finds that cultural heritage organizations tend to be small, to blend program areas, to make cultural difference central to their work, and they show important program and organizational variation across ethnic groups. These key characteristics should be taken into account when supporting cultural heritage organizations.

The District of Columbia Housing Monitor provides a quarterly look at the Washington, D.C., housing market. Each report will use the most recent available data to illuminate housing market and affordable housing trends. In addition, each report will include a special focus section that will analyze, in greater depth, developments that are shaping the city's housing landscape. In this issue, the special section examines mortgage lending trends, including levels of subprime lending, in the city's nine wards.

The fall 2006 District of Columbia Housing Monitor offers further evidence that home sales in the District are cooling. The report also reviews trends in home mortgage lending in the city, including measures of subprime lending.

Policymakers and practitioners need new ways to understand patterns of neighborhood diversity (racial, ethnic, and economic) in their communities, and to track changes over time. This paper documents the prevalence of diverse neighborhoods, describes their geographic distribution, and explores how they changed between 1990 and 2000. It uses decennial census data to develop a new set of neighborhood typologies--grouping tracts into categories that reflect important differences in the racial, ethnic, and income groups represented. These typologies provide updated tools for describing the extent of neighborhood diversity and exploring the implications of diversity for families and communities.

Over the past 10 years, U.S. child poverty rates took two sharp turns: a major reduction from 1993 to 2000 followed by a slight hike from 2000 to 2004. This brief finds that the 1993 to 2000 drop in child poverty is largely due to improvements in the job market, especially for less-educated workers. The economic downturn beginning in 2000 hit all families, even those with more education, but the families of black children were hit hardest.