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20 Mar 2015

CDFI Boards and Fundraising: Week 2, What do CDFI Boards Look Like?

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Ideally, a CDFI board helps govern the organization, attract resources, as well as maintain accountability to the target market. This poses extra challenges for board recruitment, as board members must have the ability to make management decisions while balancing the …

20 Sep 2012

New FDIC Study Finds 1 in 4 U.S. Households Unbanked or Underbanked

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The FDIC recently released the results of its second National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households. Among some of the study’s notable findings:

● 28.3 percent of U.S. households are either unbanked (8.2%) or underbanked (20.1%)
● Unbanked and …

17 Jul 2012

Asset-Building Through Savings: Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)

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Earlier this year CFED released its 2012 Asset & Opportunity Scorecard, which provides a comprehensive set of data on the financial security of U.S. households and highlights how the recession has affected the long-term financial security of Americans:

“27 …