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		<title>NCCLF Increases Maximum Loan Size and Term</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NCCLF is excited to announce two significant changes to our lending program. In May of this year, the NCCLF Board of Directors approved doubling our maximum loan size from $1 million to $2 million, and increasing our maximum loan term to ten years. In increasing our maximum loan size, NCCLF is responding to a demonstrated [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/07/ncclf-increases-maximum-loan-size-and-term/</link>
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		<title>NCCLF 7th Annual Spring Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On May 19th, the Green Room at the San Francisco War Memorial was filled with over 250 people, all gathered to hear the perspective of NCCLF’s 7th Annual Event speaker, Amy Domini. Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments and a “Responsibility Pioneer”, Amy responded to a set of interesting questions posed by KQED 88.5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/07/ncclf-7th-annual-spring-event-2/</link>
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		<title>NCCLF Supports Housing California</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Established in 1979, Housing California (HCA) is our state’s leading advocacy and research group for affordable housing. HCA’s mission is to increase the supply of decent, safe, accessible, and permanently affordable homes for homeless and low-income Californians. Headquartered in Sacramento, HCA also hosts the nation’s largest affordable housing conference. Historically, nearly two-thirds of HCA’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/07/ncclf-supports-housing-california/</link>
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		<title>NCCLF Providing Technical Assistance to Central Market Cultural District Loan Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NCCLF is pleased to be providing technical assistance to organizations seeking loans from the Central Market Cultural District Loan Fund. The Loan Fund is part of a multi-agency effort lead by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development to revitalize the arts and culture district in the Central Market and Tenderloin areas of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/07/ncclf-providing-technical-assistance-to-central-market-cultural-district-loan-fund/</link>
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		<title>A Home for Senior Spirit, Mind and Body</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If it were an independent country, the state of California would have the 7th highest GDP in the world. Nevertheless, many of our senior citizens are poor. Over one-third of Californians 65 years and older live below 200% of the federal poverty line. Moreover, the maximum income for seniors to qualify for federal government assistance [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/05/a-home-for-senior-spirit-mind-and-body/</link>
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		<title>People of Principle:  Sue Severin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sue Severin was born and raised in the San Francisco area. She is a mother, community mobilizer, world traveler, international political activist, and an investor with NCCLF. Sue received her Political Science degree from Stanford, and then moved to Washington, D.C., where she was on staff for the Richard Nixon Campaign for President. After his [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/05/people-of-principle-sue-severin/</link>
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		<title>People&#8217;s Grocery and NCCLF &#8211; A Partnership to Produce More Urban Gardens</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In an effort to provide solutions to “food injustice,” Brahm Ahmadi and Malaika Edwards formed the People’s Grocery in Oakland, California in 2003, with a mission to build a sustainable community food system. This cutting-edge organization has operated programs successfully in West Oakland since then, and is continually seeking methods to expand and improve the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/05/peoples-grocery-and-ncclf-a-partnership-to-produce-more-urban-gardens/</link>
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		<title>Mission Economic Development Agency Unveils  Plaza Adelante</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On March 6th, a sunny spring Saturday, 19th Street in San Francisco was filled with the energy and color for which the Mission District is famous. The Mission Economic Development Agency (MEDA) hosted a celebration to commemorate the opening of its new project, Plaza Adelante. Plaza Adelante (http://plazaadelante.org/) is the 21,000 square foot home for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/05/mission-economic-development-agency-unveils-plaza-adelante/</link>
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		<title>NCCLF 7th Annual Spring Event</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Socially Responsible Investing: Then and Now Program: Amy Domini, Domini Social Investments Interviewed by Scott Shafer, The California Report, KQED 88.5 FM Wednesday, May 19, 2010 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Green Room in the War Memorial 401 Van Ness, San Francisco, CA You are invited! Join over 250 fellow community development professionals, investors, donors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/05/ncclf-7th-annual-spring-event/</link>
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		<title>NCCLF President Mary A. Rogier Visits Washington, D.C.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a part of her duties as board member of our national industry coalition, Opportunity Finance Network (OFN),  Mary Rogier was recently invited to attend a meeting in Washington, D.C. with several others who serve on the national Strategic Planning Committee of the OFN Board of Directors.  The purpose of the visit was to spend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.ncclf.org/2010/04/ncclf-president-mary-a-rogier-visits-washington-d-c/</link>
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