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CRA lending during the subprime meltdown
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The future of community development
Grogan starts by stating that community development must focus on human development. To do this well, the field needs new tools and strategies, including geographically broadly-based intermediaries, local collaboration and pay for success model. Perhaps at least as important, it is essential to communities that the country get out of political gridlock, so as to preserve and enhance the capacity of government to invest in the future.
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U.S. monetary policy: an introduction
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Community development in rural America: collaborative, regional, and comprehensive
Duncan?s focus is on rural community development, which she says must be seen more broadly as economic development. Rural poverty is different in different places?Duncan notes the persistent poverty of Appalachia and parts of the South, the new poverty of depopulation on the Great Plains, and the less visible but still significant poverty in those parts of rural America that are finding new economic strength. But combating rural poverty is hindered by themes that are consistent across all three types of places: distance, lack of human capital, lack of corporate capital, lack of infrastructure ...
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Scale Finance: Industrial-Strength Social Impact Bonds for Mainstream Investors
Social Impact Bonds (also known as Pay for Success contracts) have demonstrated significant growth potential within their defined boundaries, but the standard model has not yet developed ?mainstream? investment transactions capable of expanding certified evidence-based programs (CEBPs) commensurate with unmet population needs. This paper proposes an enhanced SIB model called ?Scale Finance? in which asset owners and fund managers would work with CEBP developers to expand these proprietary programs at their maximum feasible growth rates. If successful, Scale Finance would offer a financially ...
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People transforming communities. For good.
Blanchard says that neighborhood strength is the essential element of community development, and it?s an integrated concept involving housing, health, schools, finance, jobs and infrastructure. People are the critical asset; helping them articulate what they need and then help them get it is the role of community development. The ability to manage an integrated solution and respond to needs requires strong, well-financed organizations with the infrastructure that enables them to grow and respond to change and to raise significant funds over long periods of time.
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Future of community development: How CDFIs can best ride the impact investing wave
Bugg-Levine states that changing needs and changing funding sources require that community development reinvent itself. Impact investing can be a major new funding source, but community development risks being left behind unless it can meet the needs of impact investors for diversified investment, national investing platforms that invest locally, off-balance sheet activities (i.e., not enterprise funding), and convincing impact. More broadly, the industry needs to focus on solving problems, recognizing that investment is only one part of the solution. NFF is using a strategy it calls ...