Within the larger ethnic community, rotating credit associations have been used to raise capital. These asso- ciations are informal clubs of friends and other trusted members of the ethnic group who make regular contri- butions to a fund that is given to each contributor in rotation. One author estimates that 40 percent of New York Chinatown firms established during 1900-1950 utilized such associations as their initial source of capital. However, recent immigrants and third or fourth generations of older groups now employ rotating credit associations only occasionally to raise investment funds. Some groups, like Black Americans, found other means of financial support for their entrepreneurial efforts.The first Black-operated banks were created in the late nine- teenth century as depositories for dues collected from fraternal or lodge groups, which themselves had sprung from Black churches. Black banks made limited invest- ments in other Black enterprises. Irish immigrants in American cities organized many building and loan asso- ciations to provide capital for home construction and purchase. They. in turn, provided work for many Irish home-building contractor firms. Other ethnic and minority groups followed similar practices in founding ethnic-directed financial institutions.
1. Based on the information in the passage. it would be LEAST likely for which of the following persons to be part of a self-help network?
The entrepreneurs childhood friend
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