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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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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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¡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? Developing Community Leadership Entrepreneurs play a critical role as community builders.

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Scaling Deep, Not Up: Lessons from Detroit

NonProfit Quarterly

Leaders in many places facing economic decline—be they post-industrial cities in the Rust Belt or depleted communities in former coal mining towns—are increasingly looking to entrepreneurship as a means of revitalization. Neighborhood book clubs were repurposed as platforms with which to educate pet owners.

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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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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,