Posts Tagged ‘neighborhoods’

22nd Annual Reception

On May 12, we celebrated with over 200 guests, including partners, investors and legislators, the revitalization work that Finance Fund accomplished in Ohio communities in 2010. The 22nd Annual Reception was an evening full of opportunities to reflect on the past year’s work and look forward to the projects to come. Our theme for 2010 [...]

Vacant Properties, Where Do We Go Now?

Driving through many neighborhoods across the state of Ohio is more like driving through ghost towns. Vacant, abandoned properties litter the once-thriving communities, reminding passers-by of the crisis facing us all and the disparity of resource allocation in our country. As the Wall Street Journal recently reported, more than 1.5 million properties received a foreclosure [...]

The Proper Thing to Do

I like to dress up. It’s very seldom that I don’t wear a coat and tie, which I believe is a piece of my past that continually pokes it head through my frame of reference. My maternal grandfather was English and a proper bloke. He came to the States at seventeen years old and never [...]

Klein appointed to CDFI Coalition

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.