Chautauqua Opportunities for Development Stories and Data

Chautauqua Opportunities for Development Stories

CDFI Program Financial Assistance Success Stories: Spring Bank
A CDFI program in NYC enabling low-income employees to access affordable credit, improve credit scores, and build savings
BOLD Charter School
Construction of a 60,000 square feet charter school facility featuring 27 classrooms, small breakout rooms, an art room, music room, science labs, cafeteria/gymnasium, and administrative spaces.
Pickleball Mania
AE financing helped Lesa Carter expand her community recreation business, offering events like family nights for 75+ attendees.
The Juice Collective
AE helped LaTeka Cooke-Davis start her juice bar when others wouldn’t; she’s expanding from Horseheads to downtown Elmira.

Chautauqua Opportunities for Development Fact Sheet

Testimonials

Since 2008, CDFI Sustainable Neighborhoods has lent over $600 million to New York State homeowners at risk of losing their homes to foreclosure. Our lending programs have stabilized tens of thousands of households, thus preventing family displacement that leads to personal financial hardship and expenditures of substantial government funding needed to prevent or address homelessness across New York’s rural, suburban, and urban regions.

-Pamela Sah, Sustainable Neighborhoods/Center for NYC Neighborhoods, New York, NY

CDFIs help reduce poverty in our community.

-E. Scott Brown Jr, All Faiths Food Pantry, Syracuse, NY

Fund program has been instrumental to Cooperative Federal’s work over the years, helping us reach more people and have a bigger impact on our local neighborhoods.

-Renald Dupuis, Cooperative Federal Credit Union, Syracuse, NY

Map of Chautauqua Opportunities for Development CDFI Branches and Stories