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Copeland will talk about her career in financial empowerment and how it’s culminated in working with minority credit unions, particularly Black credit unions, around the country to ramp up their ability to lend. As Next City has reported, Black credit unions are more numerous than other minority credit unions, but have had more difficulty making loans to their members than other minority credit unions do, or credit unions in general do. If Black credit unions loaned out at volume...

They used zero public dollars to preserve a building and create wealth for tenants — and the deal could offer a financing model for community land trusts across the country.

Masa Cooperativa taps into consumer demand for a key ingredient in tortillas and tamales.

Join Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in his webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.

Here’s what Treasury’s new investment in 186 community development & minority financial institutions will mean for 160+ municipalities around the country.

Watch Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in the latest webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.  On Wednesday, January 19, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello for the latest in a webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.   The Federal Reserve is one of...

The D.C. Green Bank’s early deals hint at the possibility of a different future.

What it took to get racial equity in front of voters — and what's left to do.

An estimated 30 million people have opened an account with a "neobank." But how do these platforms work, and why is this one different?

Watch Next City’s Senior Economics Correspondent Oscar Perry Abello in the latest webinar series that goes beyond the issues of equitable economic development to talk to the people who do the work.