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

CDFIs provided necessary funding and support to communities, including small businesses. Economic opportunity is the path to a unified society.

-Kellen Robert Ball, Business Impact Northwest, Seattle, WA

It is critically important that the United States Department of the Treasury continues to support the work of CDFIS throughout our great nation.

-Robert Williams, Rainier Valley Community Development Fund, 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