Business Impact NW Stories and Data

Business Impact NW Stories

The Shoalwater Tribe Wellness Center
Coastal Community Action Program
Colville Tribal Treatment Facility
Laken Arneson

Business Impact NW Fact Sheet

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are essential to supporting businesses that serve as the backbone and cultural foundation of their communities.

-Alvertis Brooks Jr., Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, Seattle,, WA

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

Map of Business Impact NW CDFI Branches and Stories