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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Community Capital"”.
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Measuring The Capabilities Infrastructure: A County-Level Index Of Nonprofit And Private Sector Organizational And Physical Community Capital
… and private sector organizational and physical capital establishments” index (NPOPCE). Along with individual scores for six dimensions, an overall standardized score was created for each county. This project finds that this index corresponds with general rankings of well-being and provides a …
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Religion and Academic Achievement Among Adolescents
… some studies show that this is due to family and community factors; for example, variation in levels of family capital among religious affiliates may explain this association. Yet, whether religious factors affect academic achievement among adolescents may also be due to the concordance or …
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Capital for communities : connecting community development loan funds to individual investors
Community development loan funds (CDLFs) play a critical role in financing affordable housing, small businesses, and non-profit organizations in low-income communities throughout the US. Since the 2008 financial crisis disrupted CDLFs' primary sources of capital-banks and foundations-many CDLFs …
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Training civic bridge builders: Outcomes of community leadership development programs
… interventions that focus on the development of community leadership capacity could be valuable. Community leadership development programs have been deployed in rural U.S. communities for the past 30 years by university extension units, chambers of commerce, and other nonprofit foundations. Prior …
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Measuring and Analyzing Community Resilience During COVID-19 Using Social Media
Community resilience (CR) has been studied as an indicator to measure how well a given community copes with a given disaster and provides policy directions on what aspects of the community should be improved with high priority. Although the impact of the COVID-19 has been serious all over the world …
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Appalachia's new region-wide CDFI : building local community with global capital?
… foundation on the development of a new regional Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Appalachian Community Capital. By connecting Appalachia's small businesses to large external investors, will this CDFI bring more community development capital into the region, and help alleviate …
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Here comes the SUN : a case study of the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods Initiative in Boston, Massachusetts
… for addressing foreclosures. In 2009, Boston Community Capital (BCC), a non-profit community development financial institution, established the Stabilizing Urban Neighborhoods (SUN) Initiative, a $50 million pilot program targeted at distressed homeowners in Boston and Revere, Massachusetts …