Community Development Financial Institutions

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)

Table of Contents

Australian Research

• 10 Foundational Principles for CDFI's in Australia
• Financial Inclusion, Market Failures and New Markets: Possibilities for CDFIs in Australia, A Foresters Community Finance Occasional Paper
• Social Enterprise and Social Tendering: A Guide for Government Departments, Large Social Welfare Organisations and Corporations, Book Two of the New Mutualism Series
• Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions CDFI Data Project 2006 Report
• Capital Access of Non-Profit Organisations
• Do Australia’s Non Profits Face a Capital Crisis? A Discussion Paper
• Money Go Round: Recycling Finance Realising Potential
• Community Development Finance Institutions: Evidence from Australia and Overseas

Research on CDFI's Overseas

• A Platform for Transformation, Boston Community Capital Strategic Plan, Fall, 2006
• Enterprising Communities: Report of the Social Investment Task Force to the Chancellor of the Exchequer
• A Model for Funding and Supporting CDFIs: Lessons from the United States
• Financing Civil Society: A Practitioner’s View of the UK Social Investment Market

10 Foundational Principles for CDFI's in Australia, Foresters Community Finance
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Burkett, I. and Drew, B. (2008) Financial Inclusion, Market Failures and New Markets: Possibilities for CDFIs in Australia, A Foresters Community Finance Occasional Paper, available from: http://www.foresters.org.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/PossibiltiesforCommunityDevelopmentFinanceInstituionsinAustralia.pdf  
 

Burkett, I. (2005) Social Enterprise and Social Tendering: A Guide for Government Departments, Large Social Welfare Organisations and Corporations, Book Two of the New Mutualism Series, PI Productions, Palmwoods, available from: http://www.socialenterprisehubs.org/files/Social%20Enterprise%20and%20Social%20Tendering.pdf  

Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutions CDFI Data Project 2006 Report

Community Development Finance Institutions are specialised, mission-driven financial institutions that create economic opportunity for individuals and small businesses, quality affordable housing, and essential community services.  This US-based project is a collaborative initiative to create a data collection and management system that produces high quality, comprehensive data for and about the community development finance field.

http://cdfi.org/uploads/other/CDP_fy_2006.pdf

Lyons, M., North-Samardzic, A. and Young, A. (2007) Capital Access of Non-Profit Organisations, Agenda, vol. 14, no. 2, pp 99-110, available from: http://epress.anu.edu.au/agenda/014/02/14-2-A-2.pdf

Lyons, M., North-Samardzic, A. and Young, A. (2006) Do Australia’s Non Profits Face a Capital Crisis? A Discussion Paper, for the National Roundtable of Nonprofit Organisations, June, available from: http://www.nonprofitroundtable.org.au/Content/NavigationMenu2/FinancialS...

Money Go Round: Recycling Finance Realising Potential

This book introduces community development finance institutions (CDFIs) and demonstrates how they are addressing community problems. CDFIs provide loans and investments to disadvantaged communities. When this finance is repaid, it is re-loaned or re-invested. In other words, it is recycled again and again. In recycling money, CDFIs provide long-term support that enables people and communities to reach their potential.

http://www.cdfa.org.uk/documents/MGR.pdf

Parker, K. and Lyons, M. (2003) Community Development Finance Institutions: Evidence from Australia and Overseas, ACORD Report, available from: http://www.accord.org.au/publications/ACCORD_CDFI_Report4.pdf

Research on CDFIs Overseas

Boston Community Capital, A Platform for Transformation, Boston Community Capital Strategic Plan, Fall, 2006, available from http://www.bostoncommunitycapital.org/news/files/BCC%20Strategic%20Plan.pdf 

Cohen, R. (2000) Enterprising Communities: Report of the Social Investment Task Force to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, October, available from http://www.enterprising-communities.org.uk/rpt-cont.shtml#getpdf 

Mitchell, L., Kingston, J., and Goodall, E. (2008) Financing Civil Society: A Practitioner’s View of the UK Social Investment Market, Venturesome Publication, London, September, available from http://www.cafonline.org/pdf/Financing%20Civil%20Society.pdf

Nissan, S. (2008) A Model for Funding and Supporting CDFIs: Lessons from the United States, New Economics Foundation, April, available from http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/uploads/bflvtc45qq1dnb55qi1pq5vr08102008...

Thanks to Ingrid Burkett from Foresters Community Finance for providing this resource list.