1. Corporate-Community "Registry" is UP

CDCs and companies wanting to invest in CDC communities are now connecting through NCCED's Corporate-Community Registry. Sign up on the www.ncced.org webstite.

This is a great way for CDCs to market their assets of retail space, developable land, workforce programs, business investment funds, etc. to companies that are looking to locate and invest in underserved new market areas represented by CDCs. The registration is simple and free of charge. Join in on contacting companies that are motivated to find CDC partners.

NCCED just attended the annual meetings of our national partners, the International Franchise Association and the National Grocers Association. Their members are signing up, so should CDCs. It's easy. Just click on the NCCED website, go to the corporate program page and find the Registry bar. Do it all on line and become part of the electronic bulletin board of corporate-community connections.

Don't miss out! Sign up now!

For further information, contact Mike Savage ext. 136 or John Nelson ext 130 with Corporate Partnerships at 1-877-44-NCCED.

2. How Wall Street without Walls can help you address your Financing Strategy

CDCs that are in need of financing projects in the $2m to $5m range and want to access financial technical assistance perhaps to help structure details of the financing and access the capital markets, contact NCCED's Wall Street Without Walls project by calling John Nelson, Director of Corporate Partnerships at 1-877-44-NCCED ext 130 or email jnelson@ncced.org.

The Wall Street Without Walls program is a foundation-funded initiative to help CDCs and CDFIs attain a broader reach to capital from the institutional capital marketplace. Greg Stanton, the program director and ex-Wall Streeter himself, will be available at NCCED's Policy Conference in Washington March 18-20 and at the annual meeting in Miami October 9-12, 2002. NCCED and Greg are also now working with the members of the Securities Industry Association to provide local technical assistance to CDCs.

Wall Street Without Walls has already helped structure over $150m of project finance for community-based groups in through the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states during its pilot phase. Starting this year, thanks to support from the Kellogg, Rockefeller and the Fannie Mae Foundations, among others, this technical assistance resource is available nationally.

The Wall Street Without Walls Website will be available March 1, 2002: www.WallStreetWithoutWalls.com