Books in the Accessing Neighbourhood Capital Series

March 2026

Community Development Finance
COVID, George Floyd, and the Fight for Equity, 2016-2025

"I regularly recommend your work- anyone working in this movement would benefit from reading them!"
                                                              --Sarah McNeil,  CEO, United Trades FCU
"...[​Community Development Finance] will be a useful and tangible resource for readers heavily involved in the world of nonprofits, credit unions, and the like, featuring such elements as a history of the CDFI certification process and an exploration of CDFIs with environmentalist goals; it may also appeal to aficionados of financial-sector histories."
– Kirkus Reviews
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Community Capital
Race, Equity, and the Credit Union Movement

"A hard-hitting and persuasive indictment of the American banking system and a compelling defense of credit unions.​"
– Kirkus Reviews
"A must-read for any serious student of the quest for racial justice."
– Michael Mercer. Founder/CEO, COOPR8 Consulting, Former CEO, Georgia Credit Union Affiliates

Democratizing Finance
Origins of the Community Development Financial Institutions Movement

"Clifford Rosenthal has written a thorough, insightful and, yes, fascinating history and analysis of what we now know as the CDFI field....This book is a huge contribution to the field of community development finance. I highly recommend it to anyone who really wants to understand what the field is all about."
– Michael Swack, Director and Professor, Center for Impact Finance Carsey School of Public Policy, University of New Hampshire

About Clifford N. Rosenthal

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Clifford Rosenthal cofounded and for two decades served in the leadership of the CDFI movement. As president of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions (now Inclusiv) and later as the first director of the Office of Financial Empowerment of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, he devoted his career to bringing financial services to low-income and minority communities. Earlier, he worked as a food co-op organizer and as a Russian historian and translator. 
     In 2019, he was inducted into the African-American Credit Union Coalition Hall of Fame, and in 2024, he was inducted into the National Cooperative Hall of Fame. He has received OFN's Ned Gramlich's award as well as awards from the Lawyers Alliance of New York City and the National Economic Development and Low Center.

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