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Marcus Weiss is President of the Economic Development Assistance Consortium (EDAC). He specializes in commercial revitalization, innovative linkages between training and economic development, community reinvestment, community development finance institutions, minority business initiatives and policy and legislative issues of concern to government, community-based organizations and foundations. He is the co-author of Workforce Development Networks: Community-Based Organizations and Regional Alliances, Sage Publications, Inc. 1998, and Building Bridges: Community Development Corporations and the World of Employment Training, published by the Ford Foundation. He is also the co-author of Community Reinvestment Act: How to Implement Your Bank's Program, (Sheshunoff Information Services, Inc.), A Banker's Quick Reference Guide to Small Business Incubators (The Massachusetts Bankers Association Minority Business and Economic Development Task Force), and the editor of Community Reinvestment Act: Access to Development Capital/Operating in a Changing Regulatory Environment (Mass. Continuing Legal Education, Inc.). Mr. Weiss also serves as legal counsel to the Massachusetts Association of CDCs and as a regular consultant to the National League of Cities, the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development and the U.S. Department of Commerce.