Business Impact NW Stories and Data

Business Impact NW Stories

Always a good day on the sea
The Shoalwater Tribe Wellness Center
Coastal Community Action Program
Colville Tribal Treatment Facility

Business Impact NW Fact Sheet

Testimonials

CDFIs are a key component of helping our communities thrive.

-John Zmolek, Business Impact NW, Seattle, WA

I represent Northwest Access Fund, a CDFI serving Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. NWAF offers people with disabilities customized loans, financial coaching, and other resources to promote access to assistive technology, independence, financial resilience, and life opportunities. We are helping people with disabilities and seniors who lack the ability to secure financing to afford crucial assistive technologies and modifications – hearing aids, dentures, wheelchairs, adaptive vehicles, and home modifications. We could not to this vital work without the investment from the CDFI Fund.

-Emerson Sekins, Northwest Access Fund, Seattle, WA

To build communities by providing financial support to under-served entrepreneurs who have been denied financial assistance by other financial institutions.

-Lorri Wallace, Business Impact NW, Seattle, WA

Map of Business Impact NW CDFI Branches and Stories