December 9, 2025 Stories and Data

December 9, 2025 Stories

Meet Allison Bell, Owner of Little Things Preschool and Daycare
CEF providing support for a challenging business model: childcare
Rebuilding Together
A family's journey through the Marshall Fire
Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation Lending in PA District 1
PATF has supported 206 borrowers in Pennsylvania's 1st Congressional District, including 83 in Bucks County and 123 in Montgomery County.
CDVCA Invests in Goodwrx
Empowering Hospitality Workers with Stability, Flexibility

December 9, 2025 Fact Sheet

Testimonials

I run a consulting firm that supports CDFIs in their critical work to ensure access to credit and enhanced economic opportunity and job creation. The unique public-private partnership model of CDFIs warrants bipartisan support.

-Sharon Feuer Gruber, SFG Strategies, Silver Spring, MD

Native CDFIs are important to fixing the housing crisis in Indian Country. They are a way for Tribes to attract capital that leave Tribal members in control.

-Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)

CDFIs drive economic mobility in a way that positively transforms communities in many ways. It’s relevant for folks with a business/economy-first mentality to know: CDFIs create small businesses, develop financially stable households, and increase low-come families’ spending power. These are metrics that are meaningful to people of all political views. Investing in the CDFI Fund pays dividends to the broader economy. This is not a politically divisive line item in the budget. Fund the CDFI Fund!

-Kit Fordham, Mni Sota Fund, Minneapolis, MN

Map of December 9, 2025 CDFI Branches and Stories