‘Community Development Solutions’
News on local, regional efforts by communities, NGOs, local businesses, banks, governments, to become more self-reliant and less dependent on global financial casinos, big banks and Wall Street. Covers local currencies, farmers markets, co-housing, Transition Towns movements, new bioregional urban re-developments and small communities.
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NACEDA and Root Change are proud to announce Managing Neighborhood Change’s (MNC) Collaborative Competition Interactive Website
NACEDA's Managing Neighborhood Change Collaborative Competitions (click here to learn more) are intended to facilitate the unearthing, aggregation, and promotion of tools and strategies used by organizations across the country working to achieve equitable community revitalization. We are currently accepting submissions and comments for the first [...]
EARN Accelerated M.S. in Community Economic Development
LEARN Community Revitalization Strategies, Capital Financing, Transit-Oriented Development, Sustainable Development, Workforce Development, and Affordable Housing.CONNECT National Network of 10,000 graduates in government, CDCs, banking & finance, and community organizing.Admissions Deadline December 1, 2009Click for more [...]
nef e-letter
nef's event last month, The Bigger Picture: Festival of Interdependence, drew over 1,300 people to London's South Bank for a day of discussion, debate, skill-sharing and inspiration. We'd like to say a very big thank you to all the people who came along, particularly those who queued in the rain to get in, and also all of our volunteers, speakers [...]
National Federation of CDCUs Offering Intensive Seminar for Credit Unions on Community Reinvestment
Federation Offering Intensive Seminar for Credit Unions on Community ReinvestmentOn December 3, 2009 the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation) will hold an intensive seminar to explore topics that have been controversial in the credit union movement: Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) and National Credit Union [...]
Cut Wall Street Out! How States Can Finance Their Own Economic Recovery
Ellen Brown, October 31st, 2009Pouring money into the private banking system has only fixed the economy for bankers and the wealthy; it has not done much to address either the fundamental problem of unemployment or the debt trap so many Americans find themselves in. Read more...
The Tuesday Barter Report – October 27 2009
Click here for the October 27, 2009, Tuesday Report, published by BarterNews magazine.
Federation Joins President Obama for Small-Business Announcement
(October 21, 2009 - Landover, MD) "We will make capital even more affordable to the community development financial institutions that focus on providing credit to America's small businesses in our hardest hit rural and underserved communities," declared President Barack Obama at the roll-out of a series of Obama Administration initiatives to spur [...]
Teanaway Solar Reserve: An Engine for Economic Growth and New Jobs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEResults of Economic Study ReleasedCLE ELUM, Wash., Oct. 22 /PRNewswire/ -- (WORLD-WIRE) The Teanaway Solar Reserve will inject $97.5 million into Kittitas County in the purchase of local goods and services during a three-year construction period according to projections from a newly completed economic impact study. [...]
REVIVING THE LOCAL ECONOMY WITH PUBLICLY-OWNED BANKS
Ellen Brown, October 14th, 2009The credit crunch is getting worse on Main Street, despite a Wall Street bailout that is now in the trillions of dollars. The Federal Reserve’s charts show that “base money” is rapidly expanding – meaning coins, paper money, and commercial banks’ reserves with the central bank. But the money isn’t [...]
National Women’s Business Council October 2009
New NWBC-Funded Research Indicates True Economic Impact of Women-Owned Firms Women-owned businesses contribute nearly $3 trillion to our national economy and create or maintain 23 million jobs according to new research conducted by the Center for Women's Business Research and funded by the National Women's Business Council (NWBC) and Walmart. [...]
