Community Development Investment Review

Posted by on April 04, 2011

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco’s Center for Community Development Investments has published a new issue of its journal, the Community Development Investment Review.  This issue considers several international community development models that could inform our work domestically and how successful U.S. community development policy could be exported to countries seeking greater financial inclusion and poverty reduction strategies.

Low-income people in the U.S. and abroad face similar challenges: access to credit, housing, jobs, and critical services including health and education. And yet today, those who work on international economic development and community development hardly know each other. This issue of the Review is dedicated to a simple idea: innovative ideas to solve poverty should not stop at the national border. There are too many good ideas abroad that can help inform our practices domestically, and good ideas here that can be relevant to other countries.

Authors include: Patricia Lee Devaney, Root Capital; Thomas A. Bledsoe and Paul Weech, Housing Partnership Network; Caroline Bressan and Eliza M. Erikson, Calvert Foundation; Donna Katzin, Shared Interest; Robert Rosenbloom, Strategic Philanthropy Advisors, LLC; Drew von Glahn and Caroline Whistler, Third Sector Capital Partners; Paul Veldman, Columbia University; Tillman Bruett, UN Capital Development Fund; David A. Smith, Affordable Housing Institute; Tova Maria Solo; and Prabal Chakrabarti, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

You can download a copy of the Review here: http://www.frbsf.org/publications/community/review/vol7_issue1/index.html

To request a hard copy, please contact Ian Galloway at: ian.galloway@sf.frb.org