Winter 2006

Complete Issue

Contents (each article available in PDF)

• New Funding Mechanisms
  New Approaches in Social Investing
  by Ronald L. Phillips, Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
  If asset managers provided more information on community development finance vehicles to socially responsible investors, many more people would choose to earn returns while helping local communities.
• Matchmaking for Communities and Investors
  by Anna Afshar, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
  By expanding both scale and scope, community development financial institutions are starting to interest more investors.
• Benefiting Both Nonprofits and Donors
  by John H. Clymer and Sarah T. Connolly, Nixon Peabody LLP
  New estate-planning and charitable-giving instruments can make resources available to community development groups and other nonprofits immediately. Have your donors heard?
• Mapping New England: High Concentrations of Brazilians in Southern New England
  by Ricardo Borgos, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
• Reaching Immigrant Communities
  First Person with Jório S. Gama, Consul General of Brazil
  With Brazilians making up a large percentage of the immigrant community in New England, Communities & Banking decided to seek the Consul General’s views on a variety of topics, including how to encourage more of the undocumented to use banks.
• Beyond Neighborhood Revitalization
  by Sally Swenson and Chris Ney
  Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation
  After community groups rescue a troubled neighborhood, the area may attract many newcomers—and become expensive. One community shows how to help activists retain the diversity of the towns they work so hard to revitalize.
• Helping the Poor Accumulate Assets
  by Andrea Levere, Corporation for Enterprise Development, CFED
  Having assets (a bank account, a car, an insured home, a good credit rating) does more than help families weather a crisis. It can move them out of poverty permanently, with benefits to individuals, government, corporations, and society as a whole.
• Asset-Based Community Development
  by John E.Walker, Northeast Assets Leadership Project
  Before embarking on a community development effort, consider making a list of local strengths instead of just problems. A new assessment technique encourages all residents to participate in mapping community assets and helps generate the can-do attitude needed to move mountains.

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