Financial Resiliency
Working to increase equity and expand the capacity of a community and its financial institutions and individuals to invest in local businesses; supporting strategic initiatives to build capacity for community capital investing, mitigating the vicissitudes of other less accessible and viable capital markets for small businesses and main street.
Videos
Webinars
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REI Webinar Introduction. n.d.
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Family Owned Business Database for the Great Lakes Bay Region. May 2015
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Improving Tax Increment Financing Transparency and Accountability. August 2014
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Eastern Upper Peninsula Exports Exporting Assistance Website. July 2013
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Socioeconomic Impact of Urban Gardening Documentary. September 2013
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State of Emergency Theatrical Production. September 2013
Podcasts
- Triple Bottom Line. n.d.
Research
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Sustainable & Just Investing at Michigan State University: A Report to the Board of Trustees. 2022
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Makerspace prototype exploration for local micro-business incubator. 2021
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Paying for Infrastructure: Policies, Practices, and Models for Funding and Financing. 2020
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Vicksburg Asset-Based Place-Making Downtown Revitalization Plan. 2020
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Bring opportunity zones and local investors together in your community. 2019
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Investing in community improvement: southtown neighborhood, GR. 2015
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Rural business incubators in Michigan: a community analysis of Montcalm and Ionia counties. 2014
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Community based investing: crowdfunding and the Michigan invests locally exemption. 2014
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Expanding economic literacy by using the money smart for small business curriculum. 2014
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Improving TIF transparency and accountability: a consolidated TIF database for MI. 2014
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Digital literacy: further developing Michigan's twenty-first century workforce. 2013
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Michigan garage and basement inventors: advancing Michigan's economy. 2013