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for October 24, 2025
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Partnerships That Work: Building Equitable Workforce Systems From The Ground Up
By Doug Mollett
Equitable workforce development isn’t just about job placement or vocational credentials. At its core, it’s about ensuring a person’s race, gender or zip code does not determine their financial stability by helping people access high-quality employment that provides long-term economic security. While funding streams and sector strategies matter, we have to stay focused on the real people at the heart of our work. [Read more]
Power Through Partnership: The Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development’s 25-Year Journey
By Aba Hammond
Twenty-five years ago, the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development (i.e., the Coalition) was born from a simple realization that local advocacy organizations were weakening their impact by not working collaboratively. Two groups of local advocacy organizations focused on affordable housing and economic development respectively were constantly competing with each other for the same limited funding opportunities. Once the two factions decided to join forces, the core question that their work together centered on was simple: “What could we do with a larger piece of the pie together?” [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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NCRC Statement On Backward Decision To Shutter The CDFI Fund
By NCRC
“Shuttering an agency that generates eight dollars of private investment for every taxpayer dollar it spends is as backward as it gets,” said Jesse Van Tol, President and CEO of NCRC. “The CDFI Fund is a highly efficient vehicle for promoting economic opportunity in the exact places where it’s been hardest to start a small business and serve other unmet needs." [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
Events
Financial Reporting For Strategic Planning: Using Financial Insights For Growth
October 28, 10 - 11:30 am ET
Your financial reports are more than just numbers—they’re powerful tools for making informed business decisions. This webinar will guide you through how to read, interpret, and apply key financial reports to support strategic planning and drive sustainable growth. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]
Reverse Mortgage Basics for Housing Counselors
October 28, 2 - 3:30 pm ET
This interactive webinar introduces housing counselors to reverse mortgages with a focus on the FHA Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) program. Participants will gain a clear understanding of the history of the program, eligibility requirements, and loan features. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]
Fannie Mae’s Home Improvement Savings Finder
October 30, 3 - 3:30 pm ET
Learn how Fannie Mae’s “Home Improvement Savings Finder” can help households discover money-saving opportunities for home upgrades. This easy-to-use online tool connects you to local rebates, incentives, and programs for energy efficiency, weatherization, health and safety improvements, and even utility bill assistance. [Register here ([link removed] ) ]
In The News
Community Reinvestment Act Helps People Buy Homes. Evolving Will Sustain That
By Josh Silver, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition, an association of 700 groups across the country including the Milwaukee Fair Housing Council, documents that between 2010 and 2024, home lending to borrowers and census tracts totaled $15.9 billion and small business lending in low to moderate income tracts equaled $9.4 billion in the Milwaukee-Waukesha metro area. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
Lifeline For Millions Of Americans Becomes Hot Potato For Banks
By Yizhu Wang and Emily Flitter, Bloomberg
Jesse Van Tol, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, a nonprofit that pressures banks to do more business in underserved communities, often by fighting bank mergers, praised Fifth Third’s CEO. “Tim Spence has an interest in financial inclusion that is uncommon for a bank CEO,” Van Tol said in an interview. “I would hope that the bank brings that perspective strongly to bear on how they run the Direct Express program.” [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
On Our Radar
A Cruel And Short-Sighted Attack On Community Investment
By Dedrick Asante-Muhammad and Eric Morrissette, Word in Black
The Trump administration’s decision to eliminate the entire staff of the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund is more than bureaucratic reshuffling — it’s an assault on one of the most effective and bipartisan vehicles for community investment in America. With a single order, the administration has frozen 11 programs that deliver lifelines to small businesses, working families, and neighborhoods across the nation. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
By Lydia DePillis, The New York Times
This time, the Trump administration’s assault on diversity programs and cuts to the federal work force could make it even more difficult for Black workers to recover when conditions improve. The African American unemployment rate has surged over the past four months, from 6 to 7.5 percent, while the rate for white people ticked down slightly to 3.7 percent. On top of a slowing economy, the White House’s actions have disproportionately harmed Black workers, economists said. [Read more ([link removed] ) ]
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