LEARNING AREA: Economic Development, Real Estate Development
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Partnering with CDFIs: Catalysts for Sustainable Community Development

Author:

Tim Cerebe

Year:

2017

Description:

The revitalization efforts in Roanoke’s West End featured a unique blend of cross-sector partnerships between local government, private and public companies, the local food system, and the region’s largest CDFI, Freedom First Credit Union. This blog post describes the effects of this partnership.