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Policy Research and Development PDF Print E-mail

NCRCFrom its inception, CEI has built on its track record as a practitioner to engage in state and federal policy work. Policy is a key strategy for CEI to achieve greater social impact than what it could do as a single development organization.

CEI works with legislators, peer organizations, and other stakeholders to develop broader government support for model programs that we have pioneered, new initiatives and demonstration programs, and ongoing programs that support the community and economic development field as a whole. We also work with other interests in coalitions to create a conducive policy environment for our work. Often we undertake research as a first step to inform a policy direction and strategy. This may be an evaluation of a CEI demonstration program, a synthesis of existing information, or new research.

The Research and Policy Development Department undertakes new policy directions, whereas individual departments take the lead in responding to specific issues or initiating legislation that pertains to their ongoing work.

CEI is also actively involved in measuring the impact that we have on the communities and businesses in our project areas.

 

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CEI IN THE NEWS!

The results are in! Learn what the evaluation of the Farms for the Future disclosed ... 

Ron Phillips, President of CEI, speaks on public television’s “Conversations with Maine.” 

ImageMaine Legislature Passes Model Anti-Predatory Lending Bill.

Review LD 1869 here.

Predatory Mortgages in Maine Recent Trends and the Persistence of Abusive Lending Practices. A joint report issued by Coastal Enterprises, Inc. and the Center for Responsible Lending, 2006.

CEI receives SCED award for CED excellence. 

Announcing the publication, Telling Their Stories: Women Business Owners in Western Maine 

Read about NMTC's $120 million allocation to CEI.

CEI worked with a broad coalition to get the Office of Consumer Credit Regulations to study the impacts of payday lending.   

The Maine Working Waterfront Coalition works to help save commercial fishing access properties.

Current Policy Initiatives
CEI advocates for people and places left out of the economic mainstream.

CEI Reports:
Measuring Impact in Practice
Low-Income Longitudinal Study

Working Waterfront Coalition
Along the coast, high-priced homes are replacing buildings and piers that were once used to unload fish and lobsters. Of the 5,300 miles of shoreline in Maine, fewer than 25 miles remain open as working waterfront. Fishermen and shore side businesses from York to Eastport are finding it increasingly hard to do business because they can no longer access a path to the clam flats or rely on a place to store and repair their traps.

The Maine Working Waterfront Coalition (WWC), a statewide group of industry associations, nonprofits, state agencies, and concerned citizens, was formed to preserve this increasingly vulnerable asset. Over the past three years, the WWC has developed a public policy agenda and a "tool box" for municipalities, lawmakers, businesses, land trusts and others seeking to protect marine infrastructure and access to the water. As a founding member and coalition leader, CEI has been a driving force behind the coalition's growth. Now with over 140 members, the WWC is undertaking an ambitious plan to advocate at the state and local level for policies, planning practices and projects that will protect water access. Learn more about the Working Waterfront Coalition


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