Recent News Stories and Data

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Rebuilding Together
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CDVCA Invests in Goodwrx

Thank you to our partners at Inclusive and CDBA for sharing data on CDFI Bank and CDFI Credit Union branch locations. In addition, about 100 of our CDFI Stories come from OFN’s story database.

CDFI Investment Map

Mapped CDFI investment data (2005-2023), via the CDFI Coalition's partnership with CDFI Friendly America.

CDFI Advocacy App

Want more state data? Check out CDFI Friendly America's mobile-friendly CDFI Advocacy App for impacts from 2005-2023.

CDFIs can provide financial tools tailored to the needs of their communities. As a non-profit CDFI serving low-income rural communities, this is very valuable.

Marty Miller, Office of Rural and Farmworker Housing (ORFH), Yakima, WA

CDFIs are needed throughout the country to help people make their dreams come true by becoming a homeowner.

Colleen Steele, Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial Inc., Pine, SD

CDFIs help make our world a better place.

Jeffry R. Brown, , Edina, MN

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