Covington Jr. Lending Power

How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans into Big-Time Change
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7277-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Lending Power is the compelling story of the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help, a community-oriented and civil rights-based financial institution that has helped provide loans to those who lacked access to traditional financing while fighting for consumer protection for all Americans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Covington Jr., Howard E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Finanzsektor & Finanzdienstleistungen Bankwirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword / Darren Walker vii
1. Self-Help Who? 1
2. A First Step 9
3. A Financial Institution 23
4. Turning Point 37
5. Innovation 49
6. An "Aha" Moment 63
7. "We Did Not Have to Be Geniuses" 71
8. Cy Pres 85
9. "Shit Disturbers" 97
10. A Box of Rattlesnakes 117
11. The Emperor's Naked 131
12. "We're Here Forever" 147
13. Self-Help Federal—A National Institution 159
14. The Mission 175
Final Notes 191
Notes 195
Index 205

Über Autor(innen)

Howard E. Covington Jr. is a freelance historian and biographer and the author or coauthor of several books, including Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions, also published by Duke University Press; The Story of Nationsbank: Changing the Face of American Banking; Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice; and Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham. An award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, Covington received the Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2004.

Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, former vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and served as the COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, where he oversaw a housing revitalization program in Harlem. Walker was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine in 2016.