Publications

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CDFI Industry Analysis: Summary Report
Michael Swack, Jack Northrup, Eric Hangen
May 2, 2012
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) on issues of capitalization, liquidity and portfolio, and risk management by CDFIs from 2005 to 2010. This work is part of the CDFI…
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Capital Markets, CDFIs, and Organizational Credit Risk
Michael Swack, Vicky Stein, Michael Tansey
October 13, 2010
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-profit corporations of equivalent credit risk?
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Financial Innovations Roundtable: Developing Practical Solutions to Scale up Integrated Community Development Strategies
Michael Swack, Noemi Giszpencv
April 1, 2009
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.
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Promise and Responsibility of Community Finance, The
Mark Huelsman
January 1, 2009
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 banks and credit unions face significant funding stress. This brief highlights the importance of refocusing support of CDFIs to sustain…