7 days ago by Carol Tice

Small businesses have been crying for help getting loans for two years now. And finally, help arrives from an unexpected quarter: global investment banking and securities firm Goldman Sachs is teaming with savvy American investor-icon Warren Buffett to offer $300 million in financial aid to small bu ...

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49 days ago by theinvestorscircle

As we prepare for our November Fall Conference in Washington DC we asked a few of our members to provide context on our conference theme: Public and Private Partnership Opportunities. Michael Gurau is Managing General Partner of Clear Venture Partner and an Investors’ Circle member. He wrote this pi ...

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100 days ago by analyst

By Debra J. La Franchi The New Market Tax Credit Program (NMTC) is part of the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000 and has provided $15 billion in investments to targeted communities. The NMTC is administered by the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund under the U.S. Departm ...

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106 days ago by Tom

Hands up if you know what a CDFI is. I confess that I didn’t until recently. Community Development Finance Institutions may not have the snappiest name but they perform a very important function, providing responsible finance to people and businesses that banks and building societies won’t lend mone ...

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148 days ago by Carsten Schoenebeck

Im vergangenen Frhjahr unternahmen einige Kommilitonen des Caspar-David-Friedrich-Instituts (CDFI) der Universität Greifswald eine Exkursion in die ewige Stadt Rom. Mit einer Fotoausstellung und Vorträgen zu den Kunstschätzen Roms wollen die Studenten der Bildenden Kunst und Kunstgeschichte die Eind ...

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153 days ago by Jockel

Morgen ist die letzte Möglichkeit, der alljährlich stattfindenen Ausstellung Insomnale beizuwohnen. Am 13. Juni wurden die Räumlichkeiten in der Alten Post fr die Öffentlichkeit freigegeben. Der wirklich ausgezeichnete Standort der Insomnale sorgte fr viele Besucher und verdient Respekt und Hochacht ...

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156 days ago by marketinganalytixx

The text of Bernanke’s speech is here. This is a look at CDFI awards by awardee from 2006-2008: View this document on Scribd

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190 days ago by econpers

CDFI Fund Director Donna J. Gambrell gave the following keynote address at the Association for Enterprise Opportunity’s National Summit on Entrepreneurship in Washington, DC on May 18, 2009 Introduction Thank you for that kind introduction, Connie. It is an honor to be here today. Since I was appoin ...

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191 days ago by Dawn Rivers Baker

Last week, the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held another of those peculiar hybrid hearings covering more than one topic, aptly named “Progress Report on Recovery Act Implementation and Alternative Sources of Financing.” So, after SBA Administrator Karen Mills (a panel unto ...

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202 days ago by econpers

President Obama’s fiscal year (FY) 2010 budget more than doubles funding for the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund . The President’s budget requests $243.6 million for the CDFI Fund – a 127 percent increase over the $107 million appropriated for FY 2009. The CDFI Fund expands ...

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