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February 05, 2018

Rural CDFIs Give Voice to Brighter Future in Rural Regions

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.

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Kingfield Kinder Care

"When Jackie Lobdell’s children were young, she couldn’t find daycare fitting the hours she needed. The nearby child care was closed Fridays and…"

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Taylor Tots

"Miranda Taylor turned her experience as an Ed Tech III/School-Based Behavioral Health Professional into Child Care entrepreneurship - creating a commute-free job for…"

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Maine Ocean Farms 

"The oysters produced by Maine Ocean Farms are regarded as some of the best on the East Coast and are served across Maine…"

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