Howard E Covington Jr

Lending Power

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

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Produktbeschreibung

Howard E. Covington Jr. is a freelance historian and biographer and the author or coauthor of several books, including Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions, also published by Duke University Press; The Story of Nationsbank: Changing the Face of American Banking; Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice; and Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham. An award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, Covington received the Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2004. Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, former vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and served as the COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, where he oversaw a housing revitalization program in Harlem. Walker was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine in 2016.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 160mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780822369691
• ISBN-10: 0822369699
• Artikelnr.: 47707221

Autorenporträt

Howard E. Covington Jr. is a freelance historian and biographer and the author or coauthor of several books, including Terry Sanford: Politics, Progress, and Outrageous Ambitions, also published by Duke University Press; The Story of Nationsbank: Changing the Face of American Banking; Henry Frye: North Carolina's First African American Chief Justice; and Favored by Fortune: George W. Watts and the Hills of Durham. An award-winning newspaper reporter and editor, Covington received the Ragan Old North State Award for nonfiction in 2004. Darren Walker is president of the Ford Foundation, former vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, and served as the COO of the Abyssinian Development Corporation, where he oversaw a housing revitalization program in Harlem. Walker was named one of the "100 Most Influential People in the World" by Time magazine in 2016.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword / Darren Walker  vii
1. Self-Help Who?  1
2. A First Step  9
3. A Financial Institution  23
4. Turning Point  37
5. Innovation  49
6. An "Aha" Moment  63
7. "We Did Not Have to Be Geniuses"  71
8. Cy Pres  85
9. "Shit Disturbers"  97
10. A Box of Rattlesnakes  117
11. The Emperor's Naked  131
12. "We're Here Forever"  147
13. Self-Help Federal—A National Institution  159
14. The Mission  175
Final Notes  191
Notes  195
Index  205