{"id":693,"date":"2006-09-23T07:42:41","date_gmt":"2006-09-23T13:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/23\/inviting-structures-for-neighborhood-improvement\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T11:58:16","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T17:58:16","slug":"inviting-structures-for-neighborhood-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/23\/inviting-structures-for-neighborhood-improvement\/","title":{"rendered":"Inviting Structures for Neighborhood Improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Morin shares an interesting, practical, (and concise) neighborhood-based approach to <a href=\"http:\/\/citnet.org\/newsletters\/2005-02\/morin1.aspx\">rearranging our economic systems<\/a>.  He proposes a new structure, what he calls a Neighborhood Improvement Fund (a local sort of mutual fund), as the core of the shift.  He favors equity unions over micro-lending arrangements, suggests a list of core operating principles (ideals), and outlines the basic structure and function of a <a href=\"http:\/\/citnet.org\/newsletters\/2005-02\/morin1.aspx\">Neighborhood Improvement Fund<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Morin shares an interesting, practical, (and concise) neighborhood-based approach to rearranging our economic systems. He proposes a new structure, what he calls a Neighborhood Improvement Fund (a local sort of mutual fund), as the core of the shift. He favors equity unions over micro-lending arrangements, suggests a list of core operating principles (ideals), and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/09\/23\/inviting-structures-for-neighborhood-improvement\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Inviting Structures for Neighborhood Improvement&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-care","category-smallchangenews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}