Looking for a certified CDFI in your area?
Search the CDFI Fund databases at the links below :
- Certified CDFIs by State and City (PDF)
- Searchable CDFI Fund Award Database
- CDFI Fund Awardees by state
- Search Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO)’s member organizations to find a microenterprise loan fund near you.
- For community development venture capital organizations, contact the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance.
- To locate CDFIs working with Native American peoples, contact the First Nations Oweesta Corporation at info@firstnations.org
- Find a community development credit union by searching the National Federation of Community Development Credit Union membership directory.
- National Community Investment Fund (NCIF) in a non-profit private equity fund that invests private capital in, and facilitates knowledge transfer to, depository institutions that increase access to financial services in underserved communities. NCIF also created the NCIF Social Performance Metrics, a suite of transparent measures of community development focus. Please visit their website to access a database that allows stakeholders to search all domestic banks on the Social Performance Metrics and on Financial information.
- National Congress for Community Economic Development has an alphabetical listing of its member community development corporations and resource partners.
Other useful resources
- Community Development Banking LISTServ is a clearinghouse of news, discussions and information about the community development finance industry.
- Fannie Mae’s Knowledgeplex is a clearinghouse of information about low-income housing and the community development field.
- For information and resources on the CDFI Fund’s New Market Tax Credit, visit the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition.
- Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)’s website contains information on community development for the banking industry, including research, policy guidance and general guidelines for partnership.
- Read OFN's the NEXT American Opportunity, where you can explore the possibilities of innovative policy solutions to foster small business and entrepreneurship; promote affordable housing; protect the environment; build national savings; revitalize rural America; strengthen the nonprofit sector; and maximize the leverage of public investment.
- SRI World Group provides social investing and social responsibility information.
- Thomas offers up-to-date information on the status of legislation in Congress.
- The Woodstock Institute produces research and policy papers on a number of community development topics.
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