View from the Trenches: From living room depository to ‘fastest-growing”
by Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Southern Chautauqua’s affordable financing model grew membership from the outside in Southern Chautauqua Federal Credit...
View ArticleRescue Refinance: Double Bottom Line Results for Wisconsin’s CoVantage Credit...
by Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of CDCU CoVantage Credit Union recently received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Community Development Financial Institutions Fund to extend its Rescue...
View ArticleSecondary Capital: Fueling Credit Union Growth to Achieve Their True Potential
by Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of CDCU 2012 marked a turning point for credit unions. CUNA’s mid-year report shows that asset growth was 6.9%, compared to the 4.2% of the prior year. Fueled...
View ArticleFilling The Vacuum: Tongass FCU Is Expanding Access Affordable Credit Union...
By Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions For the Metlakatla Indian Community on Annette Island in Southeast Southern Alaska, Tongass Federal Credit Union is here...
View ArticleCDFI Credit Union Round Table at GAC: This is a Session you Can’t Afford to...
By. Pablo DeFilippi, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions For CDFI-certified credit unions across the country, April 1, 2013 is no joke. In a move expected by industry experts,...
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What Would Edward Filene Say?
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Given that the economy is still under stress, it isn’t surprising that the number of unbanked or...
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Grassroots and Credit Unions: A Yet Unrealized Opportunity
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions I wonder if ten years from now we’ll be looking back to this time asking ourselves what could have...
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Embracing Our Cooperative Identity: The International Year of Cooperatives
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions As you are well aware, this past October 31st the United Nations General Assembly declared 2012 as...
View ArticleCommunity Development & Community Finance – Where Opportunity & Mission Meet
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions I’m pleased to announce that CU Insight and the National Federation of Community Development Credit...
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Leveraging Synergies Between Community Lenders
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Last week was the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (Federation)’ 38th...
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Doing Well by Doing Good: Growth and Low Income Credit Unions
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions The National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (the Federation) just concluded its...
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Sustainable and Affordable aren’t Mutually Exclusive when it Comes to...
by: Pablo DeFilippi, Membership Director, National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions Last week I attended a Payday Loan Reform and Consumer Credit Convening in Chicago sponsored by the...
View ArticleThe 2014 CDFI Certification Campaign: Your admission ticket to external...
This past December, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions announced that we were embarking on a year-long campaign to greatly expand the number of credit unions with Community...
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