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Community Investment

What is a community?  Most of us think of our own community in terms of:

  • Where we live – our hometown or neighborhood
  • Who our neighbors are
  • Where we work
  • Where we shop and go to market
  • Where our children go to school – play – where their friends are
  • Where we worship

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News & Updates

June 26, 2009
Oldest Community Development Group Celebrates 42 Year Anniversary

Source:Brooklyn Daily Eagle

The Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, the oldest community development corporation in the country, celebrated its 42nd anniversary at its annual fundraising benefit and awards ceremony at Steiner Studios in the Brooklyn...

June 26, 2009
Sears Tower Gets $350 Million Greening

Source:Green and Save.com

The tallest building in the Western hemisphere has energy savings on its agenda. Sears Tower in Chicago introduced a $350 million green renovation plan that will endow the building with wind turbines, solar panels, and roof...

June 24, 2009
KROLL PREDICTS CORRUPTION COSTS COULD TOTAL $500 BILLION WORLDWIDE, AS FBI BRACES FOR NEXT WAVE OF FINANCIAL FRAUD TIED TO STIMULUS SPENDING

Source:Kroll

Government stimulus funding totaling $5 trillion has unintentionally introduced new opportunities for fraud and corruption worldwide, according to the latest edition of the Kroll Global Fraud Report. The report reinforces the...[more]

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Research & Insights

November 25, 2008
Final Report on Social Investment Pilots Published

Source:Office of the Third Sector, Cabinet Department - UK

The Office of the Third Sector has published a final report on two projects to investigate ways to promote private investment in social enterprises.[more]

July 15, 2008
ICBA Releases New Survey on Community Bank Efforts to Serve Customers in Emerging Markets

Source:Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA)

Washington, D.C. —A new survey by the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) shows that community banks recognize the importance of serving emerging consumer demographic markets. The 2008 ICBA Community Bank Survey:...[more]

July 2, 2008
Linking Institutional Investors To Communities

Source:Anna Steiger

Community Banking, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston [more]

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Commentary & Opinion

May 20, 2009
Building communities

Source:Boston Globe

BANK FAILURES and foreclosures, holes in neighborhoods where developments failed to go forward, and pervasive unemployment - sound familiar?The mess we're in now mirrors much of what Boston and other cities in Massachusetts...

March 23, 2009
Property Rights: Easy to Condemn

Source:Mike Benard

The traditional interpretation of eminent domain is shifting. It is supposed to be the "taking" of property or property rights under the badge of government for the "public good," based on just compensation. Speaking as someone...[more]

December 15, 2008
Commercial Real Estate...the next bust?

Source:Examiner.com NY

In the last year we have bore witness to economic corrections resulting in the folding of a housing market, a credit lockup, a failing financial sector, a recent oil pop, insurance and rating agency scandals, forced redemptions,...

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Community Investment Network

Be sure to check out the Community Investment Network which contains helpful tools and resources for community development and investment interests in all locales and geographic areas. 

The CDB-L Community Development Banking List\Serve

The premier list serv for practitioners including Community Development Credit Unions, CD Banks, CDCs, CD Loan Funds, and non-profits involved in support.  The discussions have ranged from the practical (construction, mortgage, and small business lending; job opportunities, conferences, fundraising) to legislative (CRA, HMDA, and CDFI) to the cutting edge (micro-loan funds, peer lending, local currency, targeting social impact).  Click here for more info.

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