Thanks in large part to the Bank of North Dakota, community banks and credit unions are much more robust in North Dakota than in other...
In this episode, Chris Mitchell, the director of our Community Broadband Networks initiative, interviews David Morris, the co-founder of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance and...
In this episode of the Building Local Power podcast, our guest is Justin Dahlheimer, president of a community bank in west-central Minnesota. Justin and our...
The only reason you’re not afraid of the Office of the Comptroller of Currency and the Office of Thrift Supervision is because you don’t know...
The precipitous decline in the number of community banks in recent years is a national crisis, and there’s a fierce debate underway right now about...
The Mamdani administration has a crucial opportunity to reverse New York City's affordability crisis; this ILSR policy memo suggests strategies to do so.
A significantly larger number of federal relief loans are reaching small businesses in states where small, local banks comprise a greater share of the market.
In this cover story for Sojourners Magazine, Stacy Mitchell writes that there is remarkably little evidence to support the idea that bigger banks are superior.
On June 14th, North Dakotans voted to overrule their government’s decision to allow corporate ownership of farms. That they had the power to do so...
ILSR built a list of grant and loan programs that helped small, locally owned businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic.
North Dakota has a different kind of banking sector than the rest of the country does, with six times as many locally owned financial institutions...
One of the most significant consequences of the consolidation of banking over the last decade is how much it has hindered the economy’s ability to...
Amendment E was passed via referendum in November 1998 with 59 percent of the vote. It was backed by more than two-thirds of farmers and...
How do we change course and revive a banking system that is more local and responsive to the needs of communities?… Read More
Stacy Mitchell's barnburner keynote address at the National Rural Grocery Summit detailed how monopolistic corporations are harming small businesses and farmers.