Four Bands Community Fund Stories and Data

Four Bands Community Fund Stories

HealthWorks
Warrior Meat Company
Warrior Grocery
Chasing Dandelions brings Play Therapy to Aberdeen

Four Bands Community Fund Fact Sheet

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

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

The shift in business models among banks and credit unions—along with ongoing consolidation and the retreat from rural markets—has left a growing number of entrepreneurs without access to traditional financing. In response, MoFi and other CDFIs have become critical entry points for future bank customers.

-Heidi DeArment, MoFi

Map of Four Bands Community Fund CDFI Branches and Stories