Community Investment

· Introduction to Community Investment :

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Community Investment is a quite unknown part of Corporate Social Responsibility. However, even if this concept is mostly famous in North America, it remains very important.

“Community investing is financing that creates resources and opportunities for economically disadvantaged people who are undeserved by traditional financial institutions.”

Each of us can participate in Community Investment. You can of course invest some of your time and energy for the good of a community. But you can also invest money in a bank which goal is to help communities. In this short movie, Maxime M. plays the role of a customer of a Community development bank where Mathieu N. is the manager, both interviewed by Florian M.. In 1997, In Louisville, KY, such a bank managed to revitalize an old and dirty neighborhood.

Companies are encouraged to work with Community Investment centers. Indeed, they will offer some help for the reintegration of unemployed people for example. Emilie L. plays the role of a manager in a company which hired a rehabilitated employee, Julie T-T.

Community Investment deserves to be developed in more countries. Indeed, such actions are getting more and more necessary and this all over the world.

· Team members :

 Thanks to them, we have discovered what the community investment concept was:

 Emilie L, Maxime M, Florian M, Julie T-T, Mathieu N.

· Bibliography for curious people

If you are curious and if you want to go further on this subject have a look to these links.

- www.communityinvestment.ca

- www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9aN9QCvGZ4

- www.communityinvest.org