The CRA encourages financial institutions to use intermediaries to expand their capacity for delivering community development services; and faith-based organizations have long been recognized as one of the most prominent and successful examples of intermediaries. And, while faith-based community development organizations represent only a subset of all community-based organizations, their presence may actually be more far reaching than secular providers. Because even in communities without a community development
corporation, there is a faith organization.
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Table of Contents
Editor’s Notebook
Lena Robinson
Small Congregations and Asset-Based Community Development
Eliza M. Carney
Faith-Based Initiative Overview
Fred Mendez
Fishing by Faith
Reverend Mark Whitlock
District Update
Islamic Finance and the U.S. Banking System
Margaret Tyndall
Jewish Community Federation
Jeff Goldman
Catholic Community Development
Amy Widestrom
Blessed Housing
Russell Beck