The Treasury Department Friday issued a long-awaited revision to its community development financial institution certification process, a move that CDFI advocates say provides much-needed updates to ...

Creating a community development corporation is a powerful way to drive positive change in your neighborhood. Whether you’re passionate about affordable housing, local business development or ...

The Barberton Community Foundation this year finished paying for its very first commitment: building a high school. For the foundation's entire 25-year history, annual debt payments on Barberton High ...

Engaging communities in the implementation process through community development councils has been the key to success of development initiatives under the National Solidarity Programme (NSP). Under ...

Paynesville is investing in parks and amenities to boost community engagement. City leaders aim to attract developers with downtown and infrastructure upgrades. Local manufacturing growth is creating ...

A University of Texas at Arlington professor who co-authored a book about the challenges faced by private foundations engaged in community revitalization has been awarded the Community Development ...

Clifford Rosenthal worked with residents and organizers to found the Lower East Side People’s Federal Credit Union, still standing today. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) This is your first of three free ...

Heather Johnson, commissioner of the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, speaks in Portland in 2023. Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald, file Heather Johnson, commissioner of ...