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Financing rural innovation with community development venture capital: models, options and obstacles
Growing local companies is essential to the economic prosperity for many rural regions and residents. Rural economies, however, rarely attract traditional venture capital. Given the important role that patient capital plays in entrepreneurial development, the future economic vitality of rural communities rests, at least in part, on their ability to access such capital. Community development venture capital (CDVC) is a particularly adept model for overcoming the structural obstacles that rural geographies present for venture capital investors. Rubin explores some of the obstacles this model ...
Conference Paper
A national snapshot for rural equity market innovation
Working Paper
Shifting ground: Can community development loan funds continue to serve the neediest borrowers?
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are designed to improve economic conditions for low-income individuals and communities by providing a range of financial products and services that often are not available from mainstream lenders and financiers. ; Part I of this paper reviews CDLF origins, structures, and current activities. Part II discusses the field?s historic sources of subsidized capital and why they have shrunk. Part III reviews potential new sources of capital and the organizational ways that CDLFs are responding to their changed environment. The paper concludes with ...
Journal Article
The new markets tax credit program: a midcourse assessment
Two leading scholars of community development analyze the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program?s origins in the economic boom of the 1990s and its implementation in a much different economic and political environment after 2000. The authors examine the program?s successes and failures and discuss prospects for improvement.