Cascade
Cascade is a community development publication produced four times a year by the Community Affairs Department, Cascade has a primary readership in financial institutions, nonprofits, and government agencies in the Third Federal Reserve District.
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Recent Issues
2008
No. 67, Winter 2008
Community First Fund has grown from a local microbusiness lender to a regional lender with a diverse product line. Nonprofit Finance Fund provides nonprofits with business analysis services as well as loans, while The Progress Fund lends to tourist-related businesses and helps build tourism markets. Membership in a community development credit union appears to have a positive impact on members’ lives, a study shows. CDFIs are trying to keep pace with growing financing demands, according to the Opportunity Finance Network. The Reinvestment Fund has developed a web-based data analysis and mapping tool that is being used by a statewide housing agency and major foundation.
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2007
No. 66, Fall 2007
Highlights include articles that cover the following: servicers expand activities in outreach and loss mitigation; servicers provide single points of contact to nonprofits; a national hotline refers homeowners to five nonprofit credit counseling agencies; credit counseling agencies reach no-contact homeowners; study probes what happens after subprime borrowers default; ACORN Housing seeks affordability standards in loan modifications; and state housing finance agencies debate refinance programs.
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No. 65, Spring/Summer 2007
This issue covers neighborhood commercial corridor revitalization initiatives, an interview with a bank community development lender who has used new markets tax credits extensively, an interview with a developer who has specialized in mixed-use adaptive reuse in eastern U.S. cities, a study on whether subsidized housing investment improves a neighborhood, and a profile of a nonprofit that teaches self-sufficiency as it provides housing.
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For Cascade-related information or to be added to the mailing list, contact:
Keith L. Rolland
Community Affairs Department
Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia
100 North 6th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19106-1574
Phone: (215) 574-6569
Fax: (215) 574-2512
e-mail: keith.rolland@phil.frb.org
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