1993- 94	Training program in forming a local development corporation, funded by Nassau County's Office of Housing and Intergovernmental Affairs for groups from Elmont, Roosevelt, New Cassel, Long Beach and the Village of Hempstead, at Hofstra University.
1995- 96	Neighborhood design project funded by Nassau County for North Park Neighborhood of Long Beach, with NYIT architecture faculty and students and Long Beach High School.
1997- 98	Neighborhood profile funded by Citibank for Lowell Avenue  Neighborhood of Central Islip, with architecture faculty and students from NYIT and sociology faculty and students from SUNY Stony Brook.   Grassroots action planning, sponsored by Citibank, for the Bay Shore-Brightwaters Summit Council and eleven local civic associations, involved NYIT architecture faculty and students.
1999- 2000	Participatory program planning and implementation, funded by Citibank with Lowell Avenue Civic Association in cooperation with NYIT, Town of Islip Planning Dept., LIRR and NYIT.       Design of Neighborhood Realty Services, a business model to be proposed in Central Islip and North Bellport. Forming a community land trust, funded by Citigroup Foundation and a challenge grant to Mt. Sinai Civic Assn.  Enlisted NYIT architecture faculty and students to help design a park for Mt. Sinai.
2001- 02	Learn by Doing community self-study and grassroots planning project initiated in North Bellport.  Concluded with publication of Bellport Station.
2003- 04	Discover South Country.  Expanded Learn by Doing to include work at the level of the entire community served by the South Country Central School District--the South Country Area.  Developed concept of Discover Your Community and introduced it as Discover South Country.  Set new precedents by collaborating with the School Board and Supt. of Schools and with the Family Support Center, an institution that was newly introduced to Long Island.  Conducted preliminary study circles, (here called community circles) and facilitator training.  Completed a "Hamlet Study" of South Country, accepted by the Brookhaven Town Board as an addition to its master plan documents.  Incorporated the South Country Community Land Trust, to support affordable housing under local citizens' control.
2005	Promotion of Community Land Trusts on Long Island.   New Directions now offers to provide education and technical assistance for local CLT's in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.   This service was introduced by a conference, Community Land Trusts in Action, workshop at Milleridge Inn, Jericho.