Midwest Minnesota CDC Stories and Data

Braiding Business and Belief
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Viva Long Prairie
12 Graduate from St. Cloud Enterprise Academy

Testimonials

As an emerging CDFI serving the state of MN with small dollar consumer lending, this funding is essential to us to help combat predatory lending that strips wealth from low-income communities and allows us to provide stabilizing capital to communities to stay housed, employed, and (re)build credit to reach their asset building goals (e.g. car and home ownership) for the future.

-Anne Leland, Exodus Financial Services (dba Exodus Lending), Saint Paul, MN

CDFIs help make our world a better place.

-Jeffry R. Brown, , Edina, MN

These funds were used to construct our high school building, which has served thousands of students and families in our community.

-Todd Peterson, Hiawatha Academies, Minneapolis, MN