March 26, 2025 Stories and Data

March 26, 2025 Stories

BEARS, BOATS, AND BUSINESS DREAMS
Native CDFIs Fuel Small Business Success Across Indian Country
Native CDFIs Fuel Small Business Success Across Indian Country
Native CDFIs Fuel Small Business Success Across Indian Country

March 26, 2025 Fact Sheet

Testimonials

CDFIs have been a vital role in our community by providing low-cost capital to businesses. Capital is not readily available in the rural area I live, so it’s imperative that CDFIs continue to receive funding that helps support small businesses and continue to grow small communities.

-Katie Rasmus, Grow SD, Sisseton, SD

CDFIs stand in the gap for communities that have long been overlooked, offering the tools, capital, and support that empower people to lift themselves up by their bootstraps. From revitalizing main streets to helping families buy their first homes, CDFIs turn potential into progress. With timely and full support from the Treasury Department, these institutions can continue delivering measurable impact, fueling self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and generational change in America’s most underinvested communities

-Kevin FItzgerald, Opportunity Resource Fund, East Lansing, MI

The impact CDFI organizations make through their lending programs helps communities by providing financing that helps create or expand a small business, create or sustain jobs, and offers communities an expanded tax base.

-Phil Black, Community Investment Fund of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN

Map of March 26, 2025 CDFI Branches and Stories