Serving our community members this way, not only helps to fulfill the "American Dream" of individual families, but also protects community assets and the American economy as a whole.
People are generally familiar with the fact that Wall Street and the largest financial institutions got hurt by toxic mortgage-related securities, but they sometimes forget that Main Street and the smaller regional and local community banks remain stuck with the hard assets of incomplete housing and other community-related construction projects.
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One of their most valuable brand assets is their authentic community of brand-fanatics united by their common love for the brand.
According to the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA), even though community banks have only 20% of all bank assets, and hold less than 20% of total deposits (FDIC), they make almost 60% of small business loans.
But one of our most undervalued assets as a nation is our network of community colleges.
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And like her, many may take advantage of one of America's underappreciated assets -- and that's our community colleges.
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She said her bid involved moving the football club and its assets - including the Racecourse and Colliers Park - into community ownership.
Similarly, all 50 states now have registered community credit unions at the municipal, county, and larger levels, with assets and lending reaching tens of billions of dollars.
The rest is split between the Recovered Assets Incentive Fund, which puts money back into fighting organised crime, and community-based projects.
This means that whatever assets are acquired by either spouse after marriage (other than inheritance) are presumed to be Community Property, unless the parties can show they intended otherwise.
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This book, along with Bruce Berman's From Ideas to Assets and Julie Davis and Suzanne Harrison's Edison in the Boardroom, has captured the business community's attention by detailing the way companies have turned patents into cash.
The Vendor Relationship Management (VRM) community could bring another shift as start-ups begin invading this space, switching the emphasis to managing personal data assets on behalf of users.
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