Winter 2006 Winter 2006

December 1, 2005
  • New Funding Mechanisms
    New Approaches in Social Investing

    by Ronald L. Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
    If asset managers provided more information on community development finance vehicles to socially responsible investors, many more people would choose to earn returns while helping local communities.
  • Matchmaking for Communities and Investors
    by Anna Afshar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
    By expanding both scale and scope, community development financial institutions are starting to interest more investors.
  • Benefiting Both Nonprofits and Donors
    by John H. Clymer and Sarah T. Connolly, Nixon Peabody LLP
    New estate-planning and charitable-giving instruments can make resources available to community development groups and other nonprofits immediately. Have your donors heard?
  • Mapping New England: High Concentrations of Brazilians in Southern New England
    by Ricardo Borgos, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  • Reaching Immigrant Communities
    First Person with Jório S. Gama, Consul General of Brazil
    With Brazilians making up a large percentage of the immigrant community in New England, Communities , Banking decided to seek the Consul General's views on a variety of topics, including how to encourage more of the undocumented to use banks.
  • Beyond Neighborhood Revitalization
    by Sally Swenson and Chris Ney
    Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation

    After community groups rescue a troubled neighborhood, the area may attract many newcomers-and become expensive. One community shows how to help activists retain the diversity of the towns they work so hard to revitalize.
  • Helping the Poor Accumulate Assets
    by Andrea Levere, Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED
    Having assets (a bank account, a car, an insured home, a good credit rating) does more than help families weather a crisis. It can move them out of poverty permanently, with benefits to individuals, government, corporations, and society as a whole.
  • Asset-Based Community Development
    by John E.Walker, Northeast Assets Leadership Project
    Before embarking on a community development effort, consider making a list of local strengths instead of just problems. A new assessment technique encourages all residents to participate in mapping community assets and helps generate the can-do attitude needed to move mountains.
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