Journal Article
First mover: the CDFI fund’s CIIS database holds promise to create substantial data repository for community development investments
Kaplan, Heidi A. (2007)
The CDFI Fund has used the CIIS database to collect organization, financial, and impact data annually from award recipients. This article discusses all aspects of CIIS with a particular focus on the transaction level data as a unique and long-awaited data set for the investors and researchers interested in the community development industry.
Community Development Innovation Review , Issue 2 , Pages 51-59

Report
Examining the Role of Job Separations in Black-White Labor Market Disparities
Kaplan, Heidi A. (2019)
Economic trends indicate stark racial disparities in the labor market. Findings from recent studies and data from the Federal Reserve Board’s 2017 Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED) elaborate on the persistent black-white unemployment gap and highlights barriers to obtaining and maintaining employment.
Reports and Studies