Economic Research
Economic ResearchTopic - Community Development
CDFIs focus on community development
CDFIs serve an important function in their communities by meeting needs for financial services and products that are not currently being met through the traditional financial market.
December 1996 - Community Dividend
Ninth District corporation is awarded CDFI funds
A Ninth District organization is among the first-ever recipients of Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awards.
December 1996 - Community Dividend
My Federal Reserve Bank internship experience
Stephen Turner, a senior at the University of Minnesota-Morris, discusses his recent internship in the Community Affairs office of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis.
Stephen Turner
October 1996 - Community Dividend
Ninth District corporation is awarded CDFI funds, community development venture capital
An organization in Duluth, Minn., is among the first-ever awardees of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.
October 1996 - Community Dividend
Not all credit unions are alike
Letter to the Editor
October 1996 - fedgazette
What is Community Affairs?
A discussion of the Community Affairs function of the Federal Reserve System.
October 1996 - Community Dividend
How the New CRA Will Affect Mortgage Lending
Top of the Ninth
Gary H. Stern
December 1995 - The Region
Community development: an entrepreneurial approach
Robert Tosterud
July 1995 - fedgazette
Doing the undoable deal
Banks find ways to rebuild neighborhood housing stock
David Fettig
July 1995 - fedgazette
Loans program brings funds to southwestern Wisconsin
Rural group, M&I bank agree to work together to aid rural areas
David Fettig
July 1995 - fedgazette
Putting the “C" in CRA
As Congress debates value of lending law, banks go about the business of reinvesting
David Fettig
July 1995 - fedgazette
Clarence Mortenson
The Spirit of the Ninth District Personified
Kathy Cobb
December 1994 - The Region
Suspending Disbelief: Low Incomes Do Not Mean High Defaults
Top of the Ninth
Gary H. Stern
June 1994 - The Region
Third World Islands in a Sea of Relative Prosperity
Minneapolis Fed joins effort to capitalize Indian reservations
David Bland
June 1994 - The Region
Banking's Role in Business-Community Partnership
John P. LaWare
March 1994 - The Region
