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 Report: Investors Increasingly Drawn to Community Investing
Community investing surges by 40 percent from 2003 to 2005; quintuples in last decade.
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Community Investing Offers Opportunities to Help Rebuild After Hurricane Katrina
Institutions Need Investments and Donations to Serve Devastated Communities
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Community
Investing Center Launched 05/17/05
Helping Investors Fund Community Development in Face of Government Cuts
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Social
Investors Direct $1 Billion More to Community Investing 03/09/05
Funds go to lower-income communities.
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Microlending
Fights Poverty Worldwide 02/01/05
Microloans are making big differences in areas suffering from poverty, disaster.
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Aiding
Local Ag Operations 09/28//04
America's Family Farmers Finding "Seed Capital" in a New Place.
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Aiding Underserved African Americans 06/08/04
African American communities
benefiting from the rise of Community Investing.
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Previous News Events
02/24/04 - Community Investments as Safe as Conventional Loans
08/06//03 - Women-Run Businesses and nonprofits increasingly boosted by "Community Investing Capital"
01/22/03 - As "Green Banking" flourishes at the grassroots level, 10 leading proponents across U.S. honored
10/14/02 - Campaign promoting "Community Investing" atlernative more than doubles institutional professional support in 1st year
10/9/02 - Study: Loans to low-income individuals, groups perform as well as "traditional" bank loans
9/30/02 - Progressive Investment Management achieves recogition for community-investing focus
6/5/02 - Childcare and Community Investing
1/24/02 -MMA PRAXIS offers new option for religious investors: Way to directly aid communities in need
12/5/01 - New Focus in Socially Responsible Investing: "Community Investing" up 41 percent in two years.
Spring '01 - Keep your home, savings safe from predators
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