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A Primer for Incubating Child Care Businesses

NonProfit Quarterly

the community development financial institution where I work, lends to families and businesses throughout the state of Maine. We also deliberately sought out people outside the entrepreneurship ecosystem who had a desire to work with children. Coastal Enterprises, Inc.,

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¡Adelante! A Latinx Community Organizes to Generate Community Wealth

NonProfit Quarterly

Image Credit: Daniel Xavier on pexels This is the fourth article in NPQ ’s series titled Owning the Economy: Stories from Latinx Communities. How does a small Latinx community organize itself to support homegrown businesses? Looking to expand and develop a permanent storefront, they participated in the food business course.

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CDFIs Transform Rural Economies. We Just Need to Get Them There.

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Enter community development financial institutions (CDFIs). Temple Foundation was advised that there are reasons that CDFI offices are not based in East Texas, the main reason being that there is simply not enough entrepreneurship activity or business opportunities to sustain their operations.