Welcome to the Finance Fund Blog!I like my chair and have had it for some time. It wasn’t a frivolous acquisition but took a good deal of forethought and decisive action to obtain. It sits in a sunny area of the back room of my home and is perfect for relaxing and reading. Though it is appropriately worn, it fits [...]
Every few years Finance Fund has taken an informal look at the “Low Income Community” market by soliciting input from groups of stakeholders and using the information to inform strategies, work planning, and product development. The drive is to always play to what the market needs and tailor resource offerings around that center. With the [...]
Media around the world is focused on the U.S bail out. I know this as a fact, sitting in a hotel room in Venice hearing CNN, CNBC, BBC, & SKY News spend significant time on bonuses paid with stimulus money. In the Congress we now have hearings on who knew what about who all of [...]
Jim was recently selected to sit on the Board of Directors for the CDFI Coalition, a national organization representing community development institutions across the country. These institutions are certified CDFIs by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund.
At a CDFI Coalition meeting earlier this week in Washington D.C., the topic was liquidity, which is a fancy word for “where’s the money.” Seems like we have once again applied a “one size fits all” solution.
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