Michigan Women Forward Stories and Data

Michigan Women Forward Stories

CDFI Credit Unions Lower Interest Rates on Car Loans
OFN Story: Michigan CDFI Finances Family-Owned Automotive Recycling Business
Detroit CDFI coalition amplifies positive outcomes in communities across the city
Lebowsky Center

Michigan Women Forward Fact Sheet

CDFIs fill a vital need in Michigan by supporting community and economic development in under-served areas. Continuing to fund CDFIs will allow them to provide financial support for communities that would otherwise be left behind.

-Charlotte J. Smith, Community Economic Development Association of Michigan, Lansing, MI

CDFIs are crucial to affordable housing.

-Braden Wiener, Opportunity Resource Fund, Grand Rapids, MI

CDFIs provide an important unique opportunity support communities by creating opportunities for underbanked companies and individuals to pull themselves up by their bootstrap by creating new businesses, housing and strengthening financial composites

-Kevin FItzgerald, OppFund, East Lansing, MI

Map of Michigan Women Forward CDFI Branches and Stories