Articles, Publications and Books
Insights and Perspectives on Supplier Diversity Report (view PDF)
Articles, Publications and Books by CARAT staff
Links to Publications of Interest
Selecting and Using Tools for Online Community Building - by Won-ju Hulse
CARAT
Expanding Financing Opportunities for Minority Businesses
U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
Developing a Quality Technical Assistance Program - by Selma Taylor
NCRC 2004 Annual Conference
CARAT's Call to Action: Technical Assistance Certification
Community Investments Online
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Volume 12, Number 3
California Small Business Initiative - Survey and Findings (view PDF)
Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets - by Glenn Yago, Betsy Zeidman, Bill Schmidt
Milken Institute
Changing the Contours of Capital - by Betsy Zeidman
Milken Institute
Once You Understand Real Risks, Investing Abroad Is Quite ‘CLEAR’ - by Joel Kurtzman and Glenn Yago
Milken Institute
Expanding Financing Opportunities for Minority Businesses
U.S. Department of Commerce Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA)
Accelerating Loss of Manufacturing Jobs is More Detrimental to California’s Economic Health than Originally Believed
Keystone Group
The Democratization of Capital - by Michael Milken
Reprinted with permission from California Lawyer magazine
FIELD Microenterprise On-Line Resource Bank
This online resource bank from the Aspen Institute's FIELD Project has information to help practitioners move forward on a range of issues critical to the future of the microenterprise industry. Users of the resource bank will find publications, training curricula, toolkits and more – compiled from numerous authors and sources, including FIELD, the Association for Enterprise Opportunity and MicroSave.
Brookings Institution Report on Credit Scores
Consumer credit reports and scores play a growing role in the ability of families to get ahead, now influencing prices for loans and insurance and efforts to get jobs and rent apartments. This Brookings report reveals the findings of an analysis of a quarterly sample of 25 million anonymous consumer credit reports and scores for every
U.S. county between 1999 and 2004.
State Technology and Science Index (national) (California)
by Ross DeVol and Rob Koepp, with Junghoon Ki
Milken Institute
Why Running a Nonprofit is the Hardest Job in Business
It's Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits
Nonprofits and the $100 Billion Opportunity
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
Working Knowledge
Harvard Business School
Research Report No. 3 - Microenterprise as a Welfare to Work Strategy: Two-Year Findings
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FIELD
The Aspen Institute
Non-Profit Genie: A FAQ about fundraising
Kim Klein
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Serving Untapped Markets - Native American Initiatives Community Investments
Online
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Volume 15, Number 3
The Role of Incubators in Cultivating Small Business
Announcing the Launch of the Center of Community Development Investments CenterCommunity Investments Online
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Volume 15, Number 2
Restoring Lives to Rebuild Community
Credit Scoring Overview
Community Investments Online
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Volume 15, Number 2
Creating Capital, Jobs and Wealth in Emerging Domestic Markets - by Glenn Yago, Betsy Zeidman, Bill Schmidt
Milken Institute
Federal Reserve Bulletin
Federal Reserve Board
Survey of Small Business Finances
Federal Reserve Board
Community Development Financial Institutions: Providing Capital, Building Community, Creating Impact
CDFI Data Project
CFED-Corporation for Enterprise Development
Survey of the Performance and Profitability of CRA-Related Lending
Federal Reserve Board
A Guide to Business Credit for Women, Minorities and Small Businesses
Federal Reserve Board
CARAT’s Call to Action: Technical Assistance Certification
Community Investments Online
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Volume 12, Number 3
Sponsored Economic Research
Office of Advocacy
U. S. Small Business Administration
AEO Exchange Quarterly Newsletter
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Emergence of Entrepreneurship Policy, The: Governance, Start-Ups, and Growth in the U.S. Knowledge Economy - Edited by David M. Hart
Shameless Exploitation in the Name of the Common Good - by Paul Newman and
A.E. Hotchner
Doubleday
You Need to be a Little Crazy: The Truth about Starting and Growing Your Business
Barry J. Molz
Dearborn Trade Publishers
Why Not? How to Use Everyday Ingenuity to Solve Problems Big and Small
Barry J. Nalebuff and Ian Ayres
Harvard Business School Press
Nine Lives: Stories of Women Business Owners Landing on Their Feet
Mary Cantando
Cantando and Associates
Planet 501c3: The Next Generation
Miriam Engelberg
CompassPoint Nonprofit Services
Winning Grants
Mim Carlson
Jossey-Bass