August 25, 2008

What Would Happen If Atlanta Simply Vanished?

By: The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
JAY BOOKMAN; Staff

In the morality tale spun by public officials in Florida and Alabama, big, bad overdeveloped metro Atlanta is sucking up all the water out of the Chattahoochee watershed, leaving little or none for downstream mussels, oysters,...

August 24, 2008

A Major New Effort To Eliminate California's Suburban Sprawl

By: Contra Costa Times (California)
By Paul Rogers San Jose Mercury News

For 30 years, as California's growing population led to sprawling suburbs, traffic jams and fewer farms, attempts to craft statewide laws to stop it have failed again and again.

City councils worried about losing local control....

August 24, 2008

COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE Foreign Buyers Poking Around Dallas For Deals With A Weak Dollar, Access To Capital And Money From Oil, Investors See Opportunity Here

By: THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS
SHERYL JEAN, Staff Writer sjean@dallasnews.com

Last month, an Israeli-backed firm bought a Rowlett shopping center. German investors recently purchased property in Frisco and Plano. And Middle Eastern investors looked at the Galleria and Millennium towers in Dallas.

What...

August 22, 2008

It Has That 'international Feel' GM Plant Gets $350 Million For Overhaul To Handle New Model

By: Plain Dealer (Cleveland)
Robert Schoenberger, Plain Dealer Reporter

CRUZE COMING TO LORDSTOWN: WHAT IT MEANS

CRUZE COMING TO LORDSTOWN

Lordstown - When he learned a few months ago that his plant was going to make a new small car for General Motors, Russell Cannon blew out a sigh of relief.

On...

July 16, 2008

Chase Earns Outstanding Rating for Community Reinvestment

By: JPMorgan Chase

New York, July 15, 2008 - JPMorgan Chase Bank has earned an overall outstanding rating for its community reinvestment across the United States from its primary regulator, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

July 2, 2008

Community Investing Makes Foray into Public Equity Markets Through Market Rate Vehicles

By: Lehman Brothers, Inc

As part of its longstanding commitment to community investing, the F. B. Heron Foundation has engaged Lehman Brothers to create a suite of products that allow individual and institutional investors the opportunity to support...

July 1, 2008

Grameen Foundation Launches Progress Out of Poverty Website

By: Grameen Foundation

Site Assists Microfinance Institutions with Managing and Strengthening Their Social Performance

June 25, 2008

New Market: Making Housing Affordable for People With Disabilities

By: Eric Hinton - Diversitylnc Magazine

Charles Hammerman, president and CEO of The Disability Opportunity Fund (TDOF), doesn't want this story to be about him. The focus, he says, should be on the roundtables his organization recently held in Chicago, San Francisco...

June 25, 2008

“COMMUNITY INVESTING” GETS $20 MILLION BOOST FROM INCAPITAL’S DISTRIBUTION OF CALVERT FOUNDATION’S COMMUNITY INVESTMENT NOTES; Incapital Provides an Opportunity for Its 400+ Broker/Dealer Network to Help Communities Through Their Investment Accounts

By: Calvert

CHICAGO, IL., and BETHESDA, MD. -- Community investing as a tool to combat poverty in the U.S. and other nations is making a big splash in the mainstream financial world, helping to support thousands of jobs, home purchases and...

May 21, 2008

Unilever Employees Spearhead Volunteer Day On Statue Of Liberty National Monument - Ellis Island

By: Unilever

(CSRwire) NEW YORK, N.Y - May 16, 2008 – Unilever (NYSE: UL, UN), one of the world's largest consumer products companies, proudly announced today that on Saturday, May 17th more than 500 registered Unilever volunteers and local...