This issue of the Community Development Investment Review explores innovations and lessons learned from cross-sector practice across a range of issues. The authors examine initiatives designed to strengthen collaborative leadership and effect systems change.
CEI’s CEO Betsy Biemann and President Keith Bisson author the essay Rural CDFIs Give Voice to Brighter Future in Rural Regions. In this essay, they summarize some of the lessons learned from working at the individual client level, the systems level, and from related fields, and they reflect on the future of community development.