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2000:
- Focus on Rural America Roundtable Perspectives
What are the strengths that rural America can build on? What are the challenges? How do
policies affect economic opportunities in rural America? Are rural issues a concern only
for rural residents? (Winter 2000).
- Opportunities and Regulation:
Do They Really Go Together? Who knows-- and who cares-- what the Community Affairs
function at the bank regulatory agencies is about? Here's the scoop about the
doorways to opportunity opened by Community Affairs, and a sampling of products and
services from the Fed and other bank regulators. (Summer 2000)
1999:
Creating a
Community. Given that strong local communities are the building blocks of a
strong national economy, what can we learn in Rio Rancho, N.M., about creating communities
that work? (Spring 1999).
1998:
Credit
in the 21st Century. How credit works in a small town in the middle of
America where one-third of the population has come from other countries. Comments
and insight from money lenders, politicians, bureaucrats, newcomers, and educators.
(Summer 1998).
1997:
- Financing
Rural America
What might be done to improve the operation of rural
financial markets? Proceedings are available from a conference held by the Federal Reserve
Bank at which experts analyzed trends in rural financial markets and considered options
for improving their operation.
- Small Business Incubators: What's Work Got to Do
with It? Exploring a successful business support center where the dollars are
leveraged to meet individual and community needs. We offer you an opportunity to meet
entrepreneurs who are creating jobs for themselves and others, and to consider with us the
ideas of innovative leaders about what makes a successful business incubator work. (Spring
1997)
- Wide Horizons:
Nebraska, the Internet, and Us explores small Nebraska towns and their use of
information technology. This exploration provides an intriguing way to examine broader
topics such as the factors behind strong communities, the role of government in community
development, and the dynamics of small business in a global economy. (Winter 1996)
- Community Development Investments
Published in 1996 by the Federal Reserve Board, this booklet provides guidance for state
member banks and bank holding companies regarding community development investments. The
Board has also published a 1996 Directory of Bank Holding Company Community Development
Investments, which provides brief summaries of community development investments.
1995:
- Affordable Housing
features case studies of affordable housing development in a large city - Omaha, Neb., -
and the small town of Macy, Neb., on the Omaha Indian Reservation. (Winter 1995)
- Credit
and Culture explores alternative credit systems, ethics, discrimination, and
the relationship between credit and culture. (Summer 1995)
1994:
- Lending in Indian Country is about cultural, legal, and
business issues of credit in Indian Country. (Winter 1994)
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