Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)

Pursuing Sustainability in the Microenterprise Field: Findings from a Literature Review by Field

Elaine Edgcomb, Joyce A. Klein and Tamra Thetford

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“New Markets” or Old Constraints? Financing Community Development in the Post-“War on Poverty” Era

Gary A. Dynaki

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Innovation Guide: Cooperative Fund of New England and Cooperative Capital Fund: An Equity/Debt Package to Grow the Cooperative Economy

Rebecca Dunn and Mary O'Hara

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Development Investment Capital: Three Steps to Establishing an Asset Class for Investing in Underserved Markets

Penelope Douglas, Beth Sirull and Pete November

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On Community, Economic Development and Credit Unions

James DeFilippis

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Community Development Financial Institutions and the Segmentation of Underserved Markets, working paper

Spencer M. Cowan , Danielle Spurlock, Janneke Ratcliffe and Haiou Zhu

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Innovation Guide: Citizen Potawatomi Community Development Corporation: The Employee Loan Program

Kristi Coker

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Community Development Financial Institutions: A Study on Growth and Sustainability

Bethany E. Chaney

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Marrying Financial Transactions with Asset-Building Opportunities

Center for Financial Services Innovation

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The New Markets Venture Capital Program: Providing Equity Capital and Expertise to Entrepreneurs in Low-Income Urban and Rural Communities

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

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Attaching Federal Funds for Opportunity Finance

Patrick Carr

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Beyond Paycheck to Paycheck: Wealth-Building Strategies for Venture Capital Funds to Use With Portfolio Companies and Their Employees

Anne Claire Broughton and assisted by Elizabeth Irons, Jessica Thomas, and Jennifer Pawlowski

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Community Development Financial Institutions: Promoting Economic Growth and Opportunity

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke

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Community Development Financial Institutions: Current Issues and Future Prospects

Lehn Benjamin, Julia Sass Rubin and Sean Zielenbach

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Assessment of Triple Bottom Line Financing Interventions

Jason Bailey

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Analysis of Selected New Market Tax Credit Projects

Martin Abravanel, et al.

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Community Development Finance in Los Angeles Challenges and Responses

Adina Abramowitz, Bryony Edwards and Genevieve Melford

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Capital Markets, CDFIs, And Organizational Credit Risk

Charles Tansey, et al.

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Show Me the Money: Promises and Pitfalls of Asset Growth in Community Development Credit Unions and Loan Funds

James Stevens

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Building Communities from the Inside Out

John Kretzmann and John McKnight

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