This Power Point, prepared for the UMI Forum on “Connecting Communities”, includes a short background section on the Dynamic Neighborhood Taxonomy project and its initial findings, and then previews some of the new tools that the project is developing.

1. AXA Community Investment Program
Bank of America
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
J.P. Morgan Chase & Company
Deutsche Bank
Fannie Mae Foundation
Ford Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
“A partnership of financial institutions, national foundations and federal government agencies
that invest capital, time and organizational leadership to advance America’s urban
neighborhoods.”
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur
Foundation
The Kresge Foundation
The McKnight Foundation
MetLife, Inc.
Prudential Financial
The Rockefeller Foundation
United States Department of Housing &
Urban Development
Living Cities Partners:Living Cities Partners:
Dynamic Neighborhood Taxonomy
A Project of
DNT Advisory Board:DNT Advisory Board:
Kris Siglin, Enterprise
Ellen Lazar, Fannie Mae Foundation
Susan Lloyd, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
George MacCarthy, Ford Foundation
Chris Walker, LISC
Mark Weinheimer, Living Cities
Mark Willis, J.P. Morgan Chase & Company

2. Dynamic Neighborhood Taxonomy
Project Partners
The Urban Institute

3. Dynamic Neighborhood Taxonomy
Participating Cities:
City of Chicago
City of Cleveland
City of Dallas
City of Seattle
Special thanks to the many officials and local agencies of the participating cities
for their extensive engagement in the project.
Project Advisors
•Troy Anderson, Dataplace
•Frank Beal, Chicago Metropolis 2020
•Scott Bernstein, Center for Neighborhood Technology
•Corinne Bradley, LISC Metroedge
•Timothy Bray, Williams Institute
•Joel Bookman, LISC
•Jim Capraro, Greater Southwest Development
Corporation
•Virginia Carlson, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
•Paige Chapel, Development and Finance Consultant
•John Cleveland, Integral Assets Inc.
•Joe Cortright, Impresa Consulting
•Claudia Coulton, Case Western Reserve University
•Xavier de Souza Briggs, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology
•Erin Flynn, City of Portland
•George Galster, Wayne State University
•Robin Gaster, North Atlantic Research, Inc.
•Bill Geller, Geller & Associates
•Robert Goerge, Chapin Hall
•Ira Goldstein, The Reinvestment Fund
•Peter Haas, Center for Neighborhood Technology
•Colleen Hernandez, Homeownership Preservation
Foundation
•Edward Hill, Cleveland State University
•Lindley Higgins, Neighborworks
•Ken Hodges, Claritas
•Bruce Katz, The Brookings Institution
•Marilyn Katz, MK Communications
•Tom Kingsley, The Urban Institute
•Jody Kretzmann, ABCD Institute, Northwestern
University
•Doris Koo, Enterprise
•India Pierce Lee, The Cleveland Foundation
•M.A. Leonard, National Equity Fund
•Lorenzo Littles, Enterprise Dallas
•Amy Liu, The Brookings Institution
•Alan Mallach, National Housing Institute
•Dan McMillen, University of Illinois Chicago
•Marcus Martin, Foundation for Community
Empowerment
•Andrew Mooney, LISC
•Jim Murdoch, University of Texas Dallas
•Karin Ottesen
•Manuel Pastor, University of California Santa Cruz
•Peter Plastrik, Integral Assets Inc.
•Andrew Reamer, UMI
•Suzanne Reade, UIPI
•Stuart Rosenthal, Syracuse University
•Greg Sanders, Northeastern Illinois Planning
Commission
•Patrick Simmons, Fannie Mae Foundation
•Cynthia Taeuber
•John Talmage, Social Compact
•Garth Taylor, MCIC
•Dorothy Terrell, ICIC
•Canh Tran, Pattern Recognition Systems
•Nandita Verma, MDRC
•Hank Webber, The University of Chicago
•John Weiser, Brody Weiser Burns
•Bill Whitney, Enterprise Cleveland
•Betsy Zeidman, Milken Institute
•Sean Zielenbach, Woodstock Institute
Please note that the people on this list are serving in individual capacity, and the organizations are listed here for
informational purposes only.

4. Dynamic Neighborhood Taxonomy
Project Team
Christopher Berry University of Chicago Harris School of Public
Policy Studies, Associate Professor
Graeme Blair Econsult Corporation, Research Analyst
Riccardo Bodini RW Venture, LLC, Senior Associate
Emily Boling RW Ventures. LLC, Intern
Joy Borkholder RW Ventures, LLC, Intern
Charlie Corrigan RW Ventures, LLC, Intern
Kimberly Gester Consultant
Michael He RW Ventures, LLC, Associate
Lee Huang Econsult Corporation, Director
Michael Mariano Econsult Corporation, Director
Peter McMahan RW Ventures, LLC, Intern
Josh Van Tonder RW Ventures, LLC, Intern
Canh Tran Pattern Recognition Systems, CEO
Richard Voith Econsult Corporation, Senior Consultant
John Weiser Brody Weiser Burns, Partner
Robert Weissbourd RW Ventures, LLC, President
For additional information, please contact Riccardo Bodini.
RW Ventures, LLC – 30 W Monroe Street, 18th
Floor Chicago, IL 60603
312 332 6295 PHONE – 312 332 8142 FAX – riccardo@rw-ventures.com
www.rw-ventures.com