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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)
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1999:

  • Equity for Rural America: Community Development Venture Capital. How is venture capital money different from other money? How can small business in isolated locations get access to venture capital? What's needed to form a venture capital organization? What role can community leaders and bankers and government officials play? What are the keys to success for a community development venture capital fund? What are keys to success for the businesses in which they invest? (Fall 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).

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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).

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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)
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  • 1996:
  • 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.
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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)
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1994:

  • Lending in Indian Country is about cultural, legal, and business issues of credit in Indian Country. (Winter 1994)
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