Lending Power: How Self-Help Credit Union Turned Small-Time Loans Into Big-Time Change

by Howard E. Covington and Howard E. Covington Jr.

Book Overview

Established by Martin Eakes and Bonnie Wright in North Carolina in 1980, the nonprofit Center for Community Self-Help has grown from an innovative financial institution dedicated to civil rights into the nation's largest home lender to low- and moderate-income borrowers. Self-Help's first capital campaign--a bake sale that raised a meager seventy-seven dollars for a credit union--may not have done much to fulfill the organization's early goals of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369699
• ISBN13: 9780822369691
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"