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Our team is hitting the streets and exploring the neighborhoods that make up this diverse city. We are meeting with neighbors, looking at properties and sharing best practices from other community development professionals. We’ll share our findings with you here!
Chubb Scrubbs Celebrates Anniversary
Schanna Turmon, owner of Chubb Scrubbs, is celebrating her one-year anniversary at the Capital Region CIT. To celebrate this momentous occasion, Schanna is having a professional photographer and her models pose [...]
Capital Region Community Investment Trust Finds Location
The Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region has successfully purchased 153 S. Pearl Street, Albany, NY 12202, to serve as the primary location for the Capital Region [...]
Replicating Mercy Corps’ Real Estate Investment Approach Can Help Low-Income People Build Assets and Resilience
Across the country, lower-income Americans face common barriers to building personal wealth. Mercy Corps’ domestic economic development arm examined these barriers, which include insufficient experience with money management and a [...]
Creating Community Wealth through Community Investment Trusts
Creating an investment vehicle for moderate and low-income individuals to build assets is necessary in order to help individuals of moderate means have opportunities to move into better socio-economic status. [...]