January 2021 Stories and Data

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Meet Allison Bell, Owner of Little Things Preschool and Daycare

Canon City,
Colorado

Colorado Enterprise Fund

Rebuilding Together

Loveland,
Colorado

Impact Development Fund

Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation Lending in PA District 1

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation

CDVCA Invests in Goodwrx

Las Vegas,
Nevada

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

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Thank you to our partners at Inclusive and CDBA for sharing data on CDFI Bank and CDFI Credit Union branch locations. In addition, about 100 of our CDFI Stories come from OFN’s story database.

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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 have assisted lower income people as they begin to work towards achieving the American Dream

Jane Slabowski, member: Cooperative Federal credit Union, Syracuse, NY

Our local CDFI has been essential to supporting our organization, our members and so many people in our community who have struggled to access capital and financial services. They understand how to work with our communities and have assisted so many first time home-buyers and new businesses in getting on track and being financially stable. For many of our members this is where they’ve opened their first bank account and learned how to manage their finances.

Jessica Maxwell, Workers Center of Central New york, Syracuse, NY

To build communities by providing financial support to under-served entrepreneurs who have been denied financial assistance by other financial institutions.

Lorri Wallace, Business Impact NW, Seattle, WA