written on March 11th, 2010 | by James R. Klein
Last week I attended the CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) Institute held in Washington, DC. The Institute is “the” meeting for the various parts of the CDFI industry. It is put on by the CDFI Coalition which provides opportunity for CDFIs and their many partners, including the full spectrum of community development finance funders and [...]
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written on January 21st, 2010 | by James R. Klein
Finance Fund is proud to join an esteemed, knowledgeable panel of experts on the Early Childhood Advisory Council’s Early Childhood Financing Workgroup. The workgroup, commissioned by Gov. Strickland, will develop recommendations that explore the implementation of a single financing system for early care and education programs. This will provide a new and consistent way to [...]
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written on September 30th, 2009 | by James R. Klein
Finance Fund recently welcomed Moniqua Spencer to the position of Chief Program Officer. Moniqua brings with her 13 years of experience in the banking sector. In an effort to learn a little more about the role she’ll be playing within our team, we recently sat down and did a little Q&A where Moniqua talked about [...]
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written on August 20th, 2009 | by James R. Klein
As some of you know, I’m fairly new to this leadership thing… I’ve only been doing it for about 30+ years. I am always interested to hear how others approach leadership, management and productivity issues in their organizations. This was a new one for me and I thought I’d share.
The Competitive Imperative of Learning (Harvard [...]
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