MI03 Stories and Data

MI03 Stories

CDFI Credit Unions Lower Interest Rates on Car Loans
OFN Story: Michigan CDFI Finances Family-Owned Automotive Recycling Business
Detroit CDFI coalition amplifies positive outcomes in communities across the city
Lebowsky Center

MI03 Fact Sheet

Testimonials

CDFIs stand in the gap for communities that have long been overlooked, offering the tools, capital, and support that empower people to lift themselves up by their bootstraps. From revitalizing main streets to helping families buy their first homes, CDFIs turn potential into progress. With timely and full support from the Treasury Department, these institutions can continue delivering measurable impact, fueling self-reliance, entrepreneurship, and generational change in America’s most underinvested communities

-Kevin FItzgerald, Opportunity Resource Fund, East Lansing, MI

CDFIs are crucial to affordable housing.

-Braden Wiener, Opportunity Resource Fund, Grand Rapids, MI

I have watched how CDFIs support small business owners and home owners where banks and credit unions could not. The amount banks charge is often above what people can pay, CDFIs that are nonprofits even the playing field for them by investing in the people and not company profits.

-Romy Fitschen, Lansing, MI

Map of MI03 CDFI Branches and Stories