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

Stanford Social Innovation Review

By Jerry Kenney , Ines Polonius & Gustavo Lasala How do we build thriving rural communities in the 21st century? Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs).

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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. This year’s event was easily the group’s largest since before the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s an odd mix, but one that NCRC has managed for the past 33 years.

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Innovating for a Healthy Context

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Sekem in Egypt, an initiative with a vision of sustainable development that enables individuals and society to thrive in harmony with the natural environment, started its context development ambitions with investments in local infrastructure, roads, buildings, fertile land, and electricity.

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