September 30, 2025 Stories and Data

September 30, 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

September 30, 2025 Fact Sheet

CDFIs are absolutely critical to provide funds for residential and business loans which grow our economy.

-Kerry Quaglia, Home HeadQuarters, Inc, Syracuse, NY

I’m a contract CFO for multiple smaller CDFIs around the US who are supporting those in our communities that are starting small businesses, trying to get financing to buy a vehicle to get to a job or earn a living in the gig economy, and small developers bringing affordable housing onto the market. No one else is making this financing available. I work to see thriving communities here in the US that make our local economies vibrant and healthy. The CDFI Fund makes that possible.

-Marianne Vermeer, Vermeer Consulting Group LLC, Ashland, VA

We cannot abandon Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), who do measurable, positive work in our communities.

-Jill Hurst-Wahl, Hurst Associates, Ltd., Syracuse, NY

Map of September 30, 2025 CDFI Branches and Stories