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...Harvard disbursed its $20 million--split equally between Boston and Cambridge--among three intermediary non-profit organizations, the Cambridge Affordable Housing Trust (CAHT), Boston Community Capital and the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, who will pass the money on to local community development corporations in the form of low-interest, unrestricted loans...
...over the years I got good results out of the SBA. It helped us diversify. Up until 1990, the defense industry accounted for 95% of our business. Then the SBA came out with a program that helped defense contractors like mine move into the private sector by providing low-interest loans...
...will call for the University to give $20 million in low-interest loans and a $1 million grant to three non-profit groups in the Boston area. The loan money will be given by those groups to affordable-housing organizations and the grant will go to fund housing research...
...kept him in power for 32 years. His children, in turn, parlayed their ties to the presidency into the role of middlemen for government purchases and sales of oil products, plastics, arms, airplane parts and petrochemicals. They held monopolies on the distribution and import of major commodities. They obtained low-interest loans by colluding with or even strong-arming state bankers. Subarjo Joyosumarto, managing director of Bank Indonesia, describes an environment that "made it difficult for the state banks to refuse [Suharto's offspring]." A former business associate of the children estimates that on commissions alone, they skipped tax payments...
...insurance, which costs about $300 a year (for information, call 800-427-4661). Don't expect the government to come to the rescue, either. Only some 10% of all natural disasters actually qualify for federal assistance. And even in those dire cases, you can usually get only a special, low-interest loan, not cash compensation...