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Ending Persistent Poverty in Rural America: The Role of CDFIs

NonProfit Quarterly

Coproduced by Partners for Rural Transformation, a coalition of six regional community development financial institutions, and NPQ , the authors highlight efforts to address multigenerational poverty in Appalachia, the rural West, Indian Country, South Texas, and the Mississippi Delta. Most residents have low credit scores.

Poverty 131
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Building Community Capacity in Rural East Texas: The Long Lift

NonProfit Quarterly

Temple ) and a community development financial institution ( Communities Unlimited ) are teaming to develop bottom-up structural solutions to building rural capacity. When we talk about economic development in East Texas, we often like to start with a the figure below, which comes from a T.L.L.

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National Gathering Looks to Address Root Causes of Inequality

NonProfit Quarterly

The conference brings together hundreds of community activists, government officials, and bank community development officers. Additionally, due to the activism of NCRC and its members, community groups have often successfully mobilized to obtain additional commitments, particularly in exchange for community support of mergers.

Finance 115
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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

In so doing, this early childhood education provides the basis for young people to develop later in life into the active decision makers and co-creators that cooperative enterprises require. They imagined creating clubs that would integrate community and social action with learning about economic democracy.

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? To be effective, it is critical to employ an equity lens in all our business development work.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Temple Foundation was advised that there are reasons that CDFI offices are not based in East Texas, the main reason being that there is simply not enough entrepreneurship activity or business opportunities to sustain their operations.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

This focus on living with dignity creates a broad scope for innovations in the dimensions of health and well-being, education and skills, economic activities, and governance. I4HCSecuring Our Investments for a More Sustainable Future Can I4HC unlock significant progress in development or is it merely old wine in new bottles?

Health 118