The Role of Business and Government in Community Development Initiatives

Read and/or review the following:

http://www.ncced.org/ National Congress for Community Economic Development (NCCED) has business related and governmental sources.

What is a CDC? An excellent article identifying a variety of business related and governmental sources. REVIEW THE HYPERLINKS!!! This is a primary reference source for this course. 

http://www.bankofamerica.com/community/ Building strong neighborhoods is what Community Development Banking is all about. In 1998, Bank of America made a commitment. We would lend and invest $350 billion for community development over 10 years.

Note:

The primary focus of this class session will be reviewing the Community Development Article Report due during this class session. In this fourth (of four) Community Development Article Report...be prepared to thoroughly share and discuss the article with the class.