Black Hills Community Loan Fund Stories and Data

Building a Stronger Community
HealthWorks
Warrior Meat Company
Warrior Grocery

Testimonials

Funding through the CDFI fund is essential to our home ownership, home ownership preservation and multifamily housing development programs. CDFI funding provides flexible, low-cost funds that fill the financing gaps in projects that provide affordable, safe, and healthy housing to our clients.

-Brent Ekstrom, CommunityWorks North Dakota, Mandan, ND

True core CDFIs are the leaders and support mechanisms in rural communities. They are the local trusted partners that positively impact individuals, companies and communities to build equity and hope into areas that are difficult to develop.

-Lori Moen, GROW SD, Sisseton, SD

We are a nonprofit Chamber of Commerce that does microlending for small businesses. We work with a CDFI bank and are trying to get CDFI certification.

-Immanuel Bassey, South Dakota Black Chamber of Commerce, Sioux Falls, SD