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Community Development Investment Review

Community Development Investment Review vol 2, no.3 Community Development Investment Review
Vol 3; No 2: Data and Technology
By the Numbers: Data and Measurement in Community Economic Development | Can Capital Markets Replace Banks for Funding Community Development? | Hunting for Data Sources: How Improving Data Can Increase Capital for Emerging Domestic Markets | Standard & Poor’s Small Business Portfolio Model Introduces a Potential New Tool for Community Development Loan Risk Analysis |Cows, Kiva, and Prosper.Com: How Disintermediation and the Internet are Changing Microfinance | First Mover: The CDFI Fund’s CIIS Database Holds Promise to Create Substantial Data Repository for Community Development Investments | Creating a Marketplace: Information Exchange and the Secondary Market for Community Development Loans | Count What Counts: Improving Charitable Investor Access to the Community Development Sector with Better Data and Better Analytical Models
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2007 Issues

  • Vol 3; No 2: Data and Technology
    By the Numbers: Data and Measurement in Community Economic Development | Can Capital Markets Replace Banks for Funding Community Development? | Hunting for Data Sources: How Improving Data Can Increase Capital for Emerging Domestic Markets | Standard & Poor’s Small Business Portfolio Model Introduces a Potential New Tool for Community Development Loan Risk Analysis |Cows, Kiva, and Prosper.Com: How Disintermediation and the Internet are Changing Microfinance | First Mover: The CDFI Fund’s CIIS Database Holds Promise to Create Substantial Data Repository for Community Development Investments | Creating a Marketplace: Information Exchange and the Secondary Market for Community Development Loans | Count What Counts: Improving Charitable Investor Access to the Community Development Sector with Better Data and Better Analytical Models

  • Vol 3; No 1: Low Income Communities as Emerging Domestic Markets
    A History of Emerging Domestic Markets | Who’s Counting? Measuring Social Outcomes from Targeted Private Equity | Panning for Gold in Inner City Markets | Investment Intermediaries in Economic Development: Linking Public Pension Funds to Urban Revitalization | The Brookings Urban Markets Initiative: Using Information to Drive Change

2006 Issues

  • Vol 2; No 3: Rural Community Development Venture Capital
    In this issue:

    Innovative Activity in Rural Areas: The Importance of Local and Regional Characteristics | Financing Rural Innovation with Community Development Venture Capital: Models, Options, and Obstacles | A Vision for the Future of Rural Developmental Venture Capital | State Governments Start Investing Capital for Entrepreneurs to Grow the Local Economy and Keep Jobs | Organizing Angel Investment to Benefit Angels, Companies, and Communities
  • Vol 2; No 2: Secondary Markets Conference Proceedings
    In this issue:

    Conference Keynote Address | Proceedings / Themes from the Conference | Turning Uncertainty into Risk: Why Data Are the Key to Greater Investment | Growing Pains | Bridging the Information Gap between Capital Markets Investors and CDFIs | Strategies for Selling Smaller Pools of Loans | Check Your Guns at the Door: How to Get Together to Establish a Market
  • Vol 2; No 1: Secondary Markets for Community Development Loans
    In this issue:

    Securitization and Community Lending: A Framework and Some Lessons from the Experience in the U.S. Mortgage Market | The Struggle to Establish a Vibrant Secondary Market for Community Development Loans | Manufactured Housing Finance and the Secondary Market | Selling Affordable Housing Loans in the Secondary Market | The Community Development Trust Taps Wall Street Investors | Financing Hope | Taking Capital for Social Purposes to a New Level | Leverage: Securitizing Community Development Construction Loans
    Letter to the Editor (PDF - 11KB)

2005 Issues

  • Vol 1; No 1: New Markets Tax Credit
    In this issue:

    The New Markets Tax Credit Program: A Midcourse Assessment | Community Perspective: Is the NMTC Program Making a Difference in Low-Income Communities? | The Political History of and Prospects for Reauthorizing New Markets | Investor Perspective: How to Invest in NMTCs | Case Study from Application to Construction: Clearinghouse CDFI Puts New Markets Tax Credits to Work | Trends and Observations from the CDFI Fund Director | How One CDC is Changing Neighborhoods with NMTC | Making Markets Work | NMTC Program Overview and Glossary

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