CD Publications

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CD Publications
Type Privately held
Industry Publishing
Founded 1961
Founder(s) Ash Gerecht
Headquarters Silver Spring, Maryland
Key people Mike Gerecht, Publisher
Products Newsletters
Website www.cdpublications.com

CD Publications is a news service firm located just outside Washington, D.C. The company produces web-based "news services" (or newsletters) whose topics of coverage include housing, health care, funding, aging and Native Americans.

Contents

[edit] History

[edit] Beginnings

CD Publications was founded in 1961 by Ash Gerecht of Kansas City, MO, and his wife, Gloria. The company is headquartered at 8204 Fenton Street, Silver Spring, Maryland.

The first newsletter published was Housing Affairs Letter. It was followed by Community Development Digest (1965), Housing Market Report (1976), Managing Housing Letter (1978), Housing the Elderly (1982) and CD Housing Register (1983).

[edit] Expansion

In 1984, the company added senior affairs to its housing-related subjects with Aging News Alert. In 1986, coverage was expanded to include grant-seeking with Federal Assistance Monitor and business in 1987 with Minorities in Business Insider. New topics of coverage came in late 1998 when Youth Crime Alert and Workplace Discrimination Alert were founded.

In 2001, the company embarked on a long-term project to transition from print-only publications to Web-based online news services. This continuing project is being led by veteran newsletter executive Jim Rogers, formerly of Inside Washington Publishers and Phillips Business Information. Rogers now serves as the company's Assistant Publisher and Editorial Director.

During the decade since the transition project began, several publications have been folded into other publications. For example, Minorities in Business Insider is now part of Federal Assistance Monitor, as is Youth Crime Alert and Workplace Discrimination Alert. Healthcare Disparities Report is now part of Community Health Funding Report, as is Disabilities Funding Report and Substance Abuse Funding News.

Other CD Publications news products include: Children and Youth Funding Report, Private Grants Alert, Native American Report, Public Safety Funding Report, Community Development Digest, Community Development Housing Register, and Selling to Seniors.

In February 2011, the company's oldest publication, Housing Affairs Letter, celebrated its 50th anniversary.

[edit] Acquisitions

In late 1996, LRP Publications (Hotsham, PA) sold Serving Elderly Clients, which CD Publications folded into the newly-launched Senior Law Report. In late 1999, CD Pubs bought The Maturing Marketplace from Silver Spring-based Business Publishers, Inc., and folded it into Selling to Seniors, which at the time was edited by Allison Patterson. BPI then sold Federal Research Report in January 2001 (according to one report), which CD Pubs added to Federal Assistance Monitor. The company acquired Inside Housing from Housing Ink, also of Silver Spring, in mid 2001 and merged it into Housing Market Report, the report which also gained the readership of Construction News when that title was bought from Evans Publishing of Portland, Oregon, in December 2004.

In the second half of 2004, CD Publications acquired Health Grants & Contracts Weekly from LRP Publications of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, and folded it into the twice-monthly Community Health Funding Report. In Fall 2006, the company acquired Native American Report and Native American Law Report from Eli Research and combined them into Native American Report. It also acquired Child Protection Report from the same group.

[edit] Sales, cancellations, internal mergers

In late 2006, Managing Housing Letter was merged with Landlord Law Report (est. 1998) to form Landlord Law & Multi-housing Report. Around the same time, Child Protection Report was folded into Children & Youth Funding Report, following an attempt to promote the former publication on its own.

In January 2007, Aid For Education Report, Disability Funding Report and Substance Abuse Funding News were converted to online-only publications in an attempt to lower costs and save them from cancellation. However, by mid year, DFN had been folded into SAF to create Substance Abuse & Disability Services Report, and AFE was folded into Federal Assistance Monitor (higher ed) and Children and Youth Funding Report (K-12). As part of the same deal in which the company acquired NAR and CPR, CD Publications sold Homeland Security Funding Report to Eli.

In September 2010, however, the company reprised its coverage of security-related issues with the creation of Public Safety Funding Report.

[edit] Publications (current)

Grants and Funding (GrantsAndFunding.net)

Housing and Community Development (HousingAndDevelopment.com)

Aging and Senior Services (SeniorsNews.net)

[edit] References

[edit] External links

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