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use of sectors

fred.tencic

October 24, 2014 19:48

Hello, We are a community development financing institution (cdfi). We are hoping to use your software to help us measure the impact of our loans in the community we lend in (bridgeport, ct). We lend to various types of business, non-profit and affordable housing type entities. The borrowers we lend to cover several different "sectors". I'm assuming to get a good picture of the impact of our loans, we have to do it by the sectors we are lending to, loan by loan, and aggregating a portfolio-wide impact. Would you agree? Can we please discuss? thanks.

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IMPLAN Support
October 28, 2014 13:02

Hi. Thank you for your post! You are exactly correct. IMPLAN is an Input/Output model that looks at the production impacts. In order to measure the impact of your financial institution, you will need to know what the loans that you make are being spent on. Then you can model that spending in the appropriate sector or industry. As without you providing the loan, the industries would not be able to do spend the money. This is the impact of your loans on the community! We would be happy to answer any additional questions you have or discuss this further over the phone.

However there would be a different way of modeling and interpreting impacts for loans on Capital Expenditures than those that go to operational functions. Thanks!

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