Equitable Development
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4 ways the CRA encourages banks to work hand-in-hand with their neighbors
The Community Reinvestment Act can help lenders chart a different future for low-and moderate-income neighborhoods. Here are four examples.
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Unequal inflation: Why rising prices are not the same for everyone
New research tells us that inflation may impact different people in different ways. People’s experiences with rising prices depend on where they live, how much they earn, and how they spend.
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Neelu Panth finds common challenges among communities and entrepreneurs across the globe
Get to know Neelu Panth, a community development advsior with the St. Louis Fed, and her path to a career of serving others through community development.
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Investment Connection: Getting to ‘We Have a Deal’
Experience Investment Connection—from pitch to impact—with small business owners, community organizers, and bankers, and the Federal Reserve community development experts bringing them together.
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![[Watch] Enterprise Capital: A New Way Forward for Effective Philanthropy](https://fedcommunities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/investment-connecting-communities-1920x1280-1.jpg?w=1024)
[Watch] Enterprise Capital: A New Way Forward for Effective Philanthropy
Enterprise capital is an approach to philanthropic funding that treats long-term, flexible capital as the high-value fuel that empowers nonprofits to fulfill their social and economic missions. This webinar discusses enterprise capital. Watch on demand.
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Samantha Evans brings the Fed’s community development expertise home to Toad Suck, Arkansas
Sam Evans of the St. Louis Fed brings the Federal Reserve’s rural development expertise home to Toad Suck, Arkansas.
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[Watch] Investing in Rural Prosperity: Framework for Advancing Economic Prosperity
In this webinar, get to know a framework for advancing shared economic prosperity in rural communities across the United States. Watch on demand.
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‘Tell me the story of your life.’ Alex Fuentes listens deeply as part of the American Voices Project
The American Voices Project began as a way to study US poverty. It has grown into a trove of personal narrative and oral history of how people across the US experienced the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Perspectives from Main Street: The impact of COVID-19 on communities and the entities serving them [2021]
The spread of COVID-19 and the many efforts to slow it are impacting communities throughout the nation. To best respond to this crisis, information is needed about the scope and scale of challenges in various communities. This report offers findings of a survey designed to collect information on the effects of COVID-19 on low- to…
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Why are Native American-led CDFIs invisible to banks?
“In our 35 years extending credit to Native communities, not once has a bank invested in our work. Instead, we’ve relied on CDFI Fund grants, foundations, and philanthropic investors,” says Tawney Brunsch, executive director of Native CDFI Lakota Funds.