Background
Taub, Richard Paul was born on April 16, 1937 in Brooklyn. Son of Martin Glynn and Frances (Israel) Taub.
( This is the story of the Southern Development Bancorpor...)
This is the story of the Southern Development Bancorporation, an organization established in 1988 with headquarters in Arkadelphia, Arkansas, for the purpose of stimulating economic and community development in South Arkansas. Richard P. Taub chronicles this experiment in development banking, established by Bill Clinton when he was governor. Based somewhat on the model of Shorebank Corporation, a Chicago bank-holding corporation that had achieved national recognition through its development efforts in the South Shore community, Southern was established with the assistance of the state’s leading foundation as a holding company with a set of subsidiaries designed to provide crucial credit opportunities and technical assistance missing from southern Arkansas. Doing Development in Arkansas is a history of that program as its creators tried to find their footing in new terrain, establish trust, work with borrowers despite legal pitfalls in doing so, and attempted to create new loan and technical assistance products. It is the story of the towns themselves in which Southern tried to have a substantial impact, including Arkadelphia, Hope, Malvern, Hot Springs, and Pine Bluff. Southern was an experiment and many of its achievements were the results in some cases of trying new ideas and in others of transporting programs successful in one setting to new locations. The most dramatic example of such a move is the development of the Good Faith Fund in Pine Bluff, based on a model of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. This book has been supported by the Winthrop Rockefeller and Ford Foundations.
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(Chicago's South Shore Bank has been heralded as a model f...)
Chicago's South Shore Bank has been heralded as a model for urban development by political and business leaders throughout America inspiring similar programmes from Arkansas to Michigan. Despite dire predictions that a depressed neighbourhood could not support a financial institution, the South Shore Bank fought to make a difference in its community, not only succeeding but earning sunstantial profits. This work tells the story of the people who built the bank and of the neighbourhood it serves, detailing the struggles and successes of this urban revitalization effort.
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Taub, Richard Paul was born on April 16, 1937 in Brooklyn. Son of Martin Glynn and Frances (Israel) Taub.
Bachelor, University Michigan, 1959. Master of Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1962. Doctor of Philosophy in Social Relations, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1966.
Assistant professor sociology Brown University, Providence, 1965-1969. From assistant professor to Paul Klapper professor of social science University Chicago, since 1969, associate dean College of University, 1982-1986, chairman department comparative human development, 2000—2009. Advisory board Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, 1993-2000.
Chair advisory board National Comty. Development Initiative, 1991-1995. Director South Arkansas Rural Development Study, 1988-1996.
Distinguished visitor Mac Arthur Foundation, 1998.
( This is the story of the Southern Development Bancorpor...)
(Chicago's South Shore Bank has been heralded as a model f...)
Chairman board St. Thomas the Apostle School, Chicago, 1983-1986. Board directors Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference, Chicago, 1972-1975. Board seminary Coop Bookstore, Chicago, since 1994.
Member American Sociological Association, Midwest Sociological Society.
Married Doris Susan Leventhal, August 14, 1961 (deceased February 1996). Children: Neela Robin, Zachariah Jacob. Married Betty G. Farrell, June 21, 2000.