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Can CDFIs Rein in Capitalist Excess?

NonProfit Quarterly

All told, CDFIs—including not just loan funds, but also community development credit unions, banks, bank holding companies, and venture funds —have $266 billion in assets, according to a 2020 study from the US Social Investment Forum. In other words, is the phrase a call for government—and corporate donors and foundations—to invest in CDFIs?

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Capitalism, the Insecurity Machine: A Conversation with Astra Taylor

NonProfit Quarterly

With this, I’m trying to get at the way insecurity is not just exacerbated but generated by our economic and social conditions. At the beginning of the book, I say that manufactured insecurity is a feature of any hierarchical social arrangement, not just capitalism. Poverty, debt, and inequality are crucial to me.