Ayrianne Parks Stories and Data

Ayrianne Parks Stories

TruFund Helps Advance Sustainable, Affordable Senior Housing in Brooklyn with Nearly $2M Investment
TruImpact Story: How Colmex Construction Built a Legacy of Opportunity
TruImpact Story: Allstar Community Care
Leroy’s LipSmack’n Lemonade: Business Success Story Fueled by Family, Community, and Autism Advocacy

Ayrianne Parks Fact Sheet

CDFIs provide critical support to low- to moderate-income communities in the form of loans and technical assistance. This support provides individuals and businesses unable to access traditional financing the opportunity to build their financial acumen, responsibly manage debt while building credit scores and wealth, and eventually graduate to accessing traditional banking products. In the meantime, these individuals are able to start or expand businesses, become homeowners, purchase vehicles, and access capital to cover emergency situations. CDFIs played a critical role with this activity during the pandemic and are part of the essential fabric when it comes to uplifting local economies and providing individuals with a path to the American dream of homeownership and prosperity in a way that promotes self-sufficiency and self-reliance.

-Caitlin Solander, Baker Tilly, Pittsburgh, PA

Our organization works in tandem with CDFI partners and members for the betterment of communities, business arena and society.

-Dr. John E. Harmon Sr., African American Chamber of Commerce of NJ, Trenton, NJ

CDFIs support small businesses in ways that traditional financial partners are unable to. From flexible financing that supports growth, stabilize operations, and boosts local employment, to providing advice in all areas of business managements, to being there for the business owners as humans whenever needed. CDFIs are integral to the well-functioning of the financial system and of the economy as a whole.

-Amine Benali, Local Enterprise Assistance Fund – LEAF, Boston, MA 02135, MA

Map of Ayrianne Parks CDFI Branches and Stories