Summer 2002
Complete Issue

Contents

• Netting Venture Capital from a Fishing Village
  In northern New England, equity capital has often been difficult for small- and medium-sized companies to obtain. Keith Bisson shares Coastal Enterprises, Inc.'s philosophy of community development venture capital and explains how others can get involved. Investment Trends
• Social Investors: New Patrons of Community Development
  Investors who want to make money while sticking to personal values are growing in number. Social investors have typically used screens and shareholder advocacy in their approach. Now, many are learning about and investing in community economic development.
• Research Review
  Improving Low-Income Policies in Tight Fiscal Times
  Iris Lav and John Springer of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities provide information to help groups concerned with low-income families understand how they might best participate in state poilcy debates.
• Productive Partnerships
  Partnerships and Collaboration Rebuild Communties
  In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, a university and community partnership used collaborative planning to strengthen a neighborhood. Marcia Marker Feld of the University of Rhode Island describes Woodlawn's Community Outreach Partnership Center Program.
• First Person
  Changing Direction: One Banker's Journey from NYC to Brattleboro
  Mike Mandracchia leads off this series with with his personal perspective on what it means to be a community banker - and the switch in lifestyle from New York City to a small town in southern Vermont.
  

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