| Financial Services |
The
Calvert Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) is
creating community investment as a new asset class. Through
its financial instruments and online information services, the
Calvert Foundation enables individuals and institutions to channel
capital to low-income communities. Calvert's below-market financial
instruments yield a combination of financial and social returns
on investment. for
more info
Contact: Shari
Berenbach
Phone: (800) 248-0337
www.calvertfoundation.org |
The Center for Financial Services
Innovation (CFSI), an initiative of Shorebank Advisory
Services, brings together diverse members of the financial services
marketplace to encourage the development of asset-building opportunities
that create value for both customers and companies. CFSI provides
funding and resources, enables partnerships, and develops and
distributes authoritative information on how to respond to the
needs of the underbanked profitably and responsibly. for
more info
Contact: Jennifer
Tescher
Phone: (312) 881-5856
www.cfsinnovation.com
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Community Development
Venture Capital Alliance has approximately 100 members,
including more than 80 community development venture capital
funds that provide equity capital finance to small businesses
to create good jobs, wealth, and entrepreneurial capacity that
benefit low-income people and communities in throughout the
United States and around the world.
for more info
Contact: Kerwin Tesdell
Phone: (212) 594-6747
www.cdvca.org
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CFED (formerly
the Corporation for Enterprise Development) promotes asset-building
and economic opportunity strategies that bring together private
markets, community practice, and public policy in new and effective
ways. CFED encourages microenterprise and development finance
to increase access to business investment in undercapitalized
areas. for more info
Contact: Andrea
Levere
Phone: (202) 408-9788
www.cfed.org |
The Center for
Community Capitalism in the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides
research and analysis to firms on business opportunities in
untapped markets including the market potential and impact of
electronic commerce on low-income neighborhoods.
for more info
Contact: Michael Stegman
Phone: (919) 962-8839
www.kenaninstitute.unc.edu |
MetroBusinessNet (MBN)
is a national network of business-led civic institutions seeking
to make their regions more competitive in today’s global
economy. Drawing from the learning and experience of network
members, MetroBusinessNet is the leader in a new field of practice
at the intersection of business competitiveness, regionalism,
and economic equity. for
more info
Contact: Erin
Flynn
Phone: (781) 574-6607
www.metrobusinessnet.net
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The Milken Institute
is a nonpartisan, nonprofit economic think tank that focuses
its research agenda on four areas including: corporate finance,
capital markets, and financial institutions; the growing influence
of globalization and international trade on economic development;
the key role of education, jobs, labor markets, and human capital;
and regional economic performance and demographics. for
more info
Contact: Glenn Yago
Phone: (310) 998-2600
www.milkeninstitute.org |
National Community
Capital Association is a national network of community
development financial institutions (CDFIs) comprising community
development loan funds, credit unions, venture capital funds,
and microenterprise lenders. National Community Capital helps
investors make sound community investing decisions that benefit
economically disadvantaged people and communities.
for more info
Contact: Mark Pinsky
Phone: (215) 923-4754
www.communitycapital.org |
National Community
Investment Fund (NCIF) is a $23 million asset certified
Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) intermediary
that takes investment from institutional investors and reinvests
in banks and credit unions with a primary mission of community
development. NCIF's investors include Bank of America, MBNA
and Washington Mutual. Shorebank Corporation, a bank holding
company with thirty years of development banking experience
in urban and rural markets is the Fund Advisor. for
more info
Contact: Lisa Richter
Phone: (773) 420-4910
www.ncif.org |
NeighborWorks
America strengthens communities and transforms lives
across America by supporting innovative local partnerships of
residents, businesses, and government, collectively known as
the NeighborWorks® network, and by advancing broader community
development goals. The network is best known for its efforts
that have created 40,000 new homeowners over the past four years
through a concept called “full-cycle lending.” for
more info
Contact: Elizabeth Chandler
Phone: (617) 450-0410
www.nw.org |
Shorebank Corporation
is a billion-dollar bank holding company that invests in diverse
markets. The bank is launching Metro Edge through its consulting
subsidiary, Shorebank Advisory Services (SAS) to provide businesses
with accurate intelligence on untapped emerging markets and
diverse consumers segments. for
more info
Contact: Shelly Herman
Phone: (312) 881-5862
www.shorebankadvisory.com |
Social Investment
Forum is a national nonprofit membership organization
dedicated to promoting the concept, practice and growth of socially
and environmentally responsible investing. The Forum’s
membership includes over 500 social investment professionals
and institutions. for
more info
Contact: Fran
Teplitz
Phone: (202) 872-5319
www.socialinvest.org |
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