March 20, 2025 Stories and Data

March 20, 2025 Stories

Built to Scale: Designing a Business with Scale in Mind
Empowered Women International is a program under the Latino Economic Development Center that unlocks the potential of women through the power of entrepreneurship.
St. John Manor
Clearinghouse CDFI (CCDFI) provided a $4,097,478 loan to St. John Village, LP to support the refinancing efforts of St. John Manor, an affordable independent living property for senior citizens in Bakersfield, CA.
Catonsville CO-OP brings together food, community, and local businesses
In the summer of 2011, a few Catonsville residents met at the local library. They shared a passion for supporting local businesses and wanted to bring those products into their community. Eleven years later, that idea has blossomed into the Catonsville Cooperative (CO-OP) Market and Grocery, a market and community hub owned and operated by owner members of the community.
A Grand Opening Like No Other
A brand new, 90-unit affordable housing community near downtown Sunnyvale, has opened the doors to its first residents and officially celebrated with a Grand Opening like no other!

March 20, 2025 Fact Sheet

Since 2011 the RGVMB CDFI has assisted over 140,000 borrowers across the Nation with access to needed capital. This work can only be done with help from the CDFI Fund.

-Nick Mitchell, Rio Grande Valley Multibank CDFI, Brownsville, 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

The CDFI Fund, and the organizations it serves, enable greater numbers of people to participate in the US economy in a positive way, creating jobs and businesses, while producing vital goods and services.

-Barbara Kueny, Kueny Consulting LLC, Milwaukee, WI

Map of March 20, 2025 CDFI Branches and Stories