| Real Estate and Corporate
Assets Decisions |
The Calvert
Social Investment Foundation (Calvert Foundation) is
dedicated to creating community investment as a new asset class.
Through its below-market financial instruments and on-line information
services, Calvert Foundation enables individuals and institutions
to channel capital to disadvantaged communities. for
more info
Contact: Shari
Berenbach
Phone: (800) 248-0337
www.calvertfoundation.org |
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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Local Initiatives
Support Coalition assists community development corporations
(CDCs) in transforming distressed neighborhoods into healthy
communities. Among other things, this national organization
provides low-cost financing and technical assistance for supermarkets,
franchise ventures and other retailing in inner-city communities.
for more info
Contact: Jeff Armistead
Phone: (212) 455-9800
www.lisc.org |
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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National Community
Capital Association is a membership organization of community
development financial institutions (CDFIs) including 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 |
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: David Berge
Phone: (202) 872-5310
www.socialinvest.org |
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