Over 30 million adults in the U.S. can't read or write well enough to perform daily tasks. Read about successful approaches to building adult literacy skills.

An overview of the history, causes, and current implications for the community development field of widening income inequality in America.

Widening inequality is experienced not at the national level, but rather on a community by community basis. Learn about income inequality and its relationship to income segregation.

The CDFI Bond Guarantee Program offers affordable, long term, government guaranteed debt financing to promote community and economic development.

The Fresh Food Financing Initiative in Philadelphia serves the financing needs of supermarket operators that plan to operate in underserved communities that may have limited access to affordable, healthy foods. Through successful partnerships, the Fresh Food Financing Initiative is being...

New trends in the today’s public health world are making an important case for bringing public health and community development efforts together. These include the changing nature of 21st century preventable disease, the increasing link between health disparities and place, and the early...

This article looks at two initiatives that are taking a local approach to interweave health promotion and community development efforts. These models utilize community-based strategies to improve health outcomes as well as educational, economic, and social outcomes. The first model is Elev8, a...

This article provides an overview of the relationship between socioeconomic factors and health, exploring trends in health care costs and coverage, the social determinants of health, and the many linkages between community development and health. There is an incredible opportunity for the health...

The current economic environment has created new challenges, as well as opportunities, for the community development finance industry.

The growth of the peer-to-peer lending industry has promising implications for innovations in the community development finance industry.