March 5, 2014 Stories and Data

Built to Scale: Designing a Business with Scale in Mind
St. John Manor
Catonsville CO-OP brings together food, community, and local businesses
A Grand Opening Like No Other

Testimonials

CDFIs solve for capital access gaps that increase economic opportunities for people and communities who have been excluded from that opportunity.

-Micha Josephy, Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, Inc., Watertown, MA

CDFIs, as mission-driven financial institutions are at the forefront in providing access to capital to underserved borrowers.

-Marsha Diane Krassner, MDK Consulting Group, San Antonio, TX

CDFIs provide a critical service to low-income entrepreneurs who are generally excluded from traditional financing to receive business training services and access to affordable capital to help them start their own microenterprises and thus improve their family’s and community’s economic stability.

-John Arnold, Thrive Community Lending, Atlanta, GA