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Communities & Banking
Communities and Banking, Fall 2004Fall 2004
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Contents

  • Measuring the Impact of Community Development pdf
    Increasingly, community development organizations are being asked to quantify the impact that they have on low- and moderate-income communities. Sean Zielenbach offers advice about undertaking this daunting and complicated task.
  • Who Are New England's Immigrants? pdf
    Foreign immigration is driving New England's population growth and shaping the region's economic and demographic character. Who are the region's immigrants? Where do they live? How are they doing? An analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston answers some of these questions.
  • Are Small Businesses Concerned about Credit? pdf
    In a recent survey of small businesses, concerns over credit fell low on a long list of pressing problems. Why? This article examines how the recent economic environment and changes in the credit industry have affected small businesses owners' anxiety over financing.
  • Surmounting Obstacles in Hartford: First Person with Luis C. Caban pdf
    The executive director of the Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance talks about how this organization is turning around distressed neighborhoods in south Hartford, Connecticut.