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Guide to Cooperative Community Lending

This open source manual explores the creation of mission-oriented community lending cooperative and offers an account of the unique organizing and financial model that Salish Sea Cooperative Finance has designed and implemented over the last five years.

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Author(s): Erika Lundahl, John Beatty, Nathaniel Blair-Stahn, Derek Hoshiko, Doug Indrick, Fan Kong, Natalie Lubsen, James Trimarco, Tom Zuvela
Organization: Salish Sea Cooperative Finance
Date: 2/9/23
Resource Type: Guide
Topic: Economic Justice, Fundraising

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