March 13, 2019 Stories and Data

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Testimonials

I represent Northwest Access Fund, a CDFI serving Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. NWAF offers people with disabilities customized loans, financial coaching, and other resources to promote access to assistive technology, independence, financial resilience, and life opportunities. We are helping people with disabilities and seniors who lack the ability to secure financing to afford crucial assistive technologies and modifications – hearing aids, dentures, wheelchairs, adaptive vehicles, and home modifications. We could not to this vital work without the investment from the CDFI Fund.

-Emerson Sekins, Northwest Access Fund, Seattle, WA

CDFIs do vital work to support individuals and small businesses in our communities. Please make sure this funding continues!

-Kimberley McCoy, Cooperative Federal, Syracuse, NY

CDFIs are most proximate to communities needs and provide responsible, flexible capital solutions that support new business starts, job creation / retention, financial acumen building and skills development, and delivery of critical goods and services to opportunity rich communities.

-Aisha Benson, Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY