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

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

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: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"