Center for Impact Finance

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CDFIs Stepping into the Breach: An Impact Evaluation
In CDFIs Stepping Into the Breach: An Impact Evaluation Summary Report, published with the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, authors Michael Swack, Eric Hangen and Jack Northrup analyze the impact of financial…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance
CDFI Industry Analysis: Summary Report
The Carsey Institute, under contract to NeighborWorks® America and the U.S. Department of Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund, conducted a detailed analysis of a large sample of community development financial institutions (CDFIs…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance
Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk
Can Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) get unlimited amounts of low cost, unsecured, short- and long-term funding from the capital markets based on their organizational credit risk? Can they get pricing, flexibility, and procedural parity with for-…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance, Economic Development
Financial Innovations Roundtable: Developing Practical Solutions to Scale up Integrated Community Development Strategies
Essays from national experts affiliated with the “think-do” tank , the Financial Innovations Roundtable, housed at the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance
Promise and Responsibility of Community Finance, The
Community development finance has played an important role in community revitalization over the past 30 years and may be even more important in the current financial climate. But today community development finance institutions (CDFIs), as well as many community…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance