There are over 500,00 Community Development Corporations (CDCs) in the United States & internationally. CDCs serve a very important and influential roles. CDCs help address issues such as lack of literacy, homelessness, lack of adequate infrastructure. CDCs are assets as these corporations help to bring sustainable change to communities globally. This dissertation develops an approach and a model for assessing the effectiveness of faith-based and secular community development corporations (CDCs) in the provision of economic development and other services. This dissertation contends that...