MN04 Stories and Data

Minnesota Entrepreneur Grows Childcare Business with Help of Local CDFIs
Braiding Business and Belief
Eagles Healing Nest
Viva Long Prairie

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.

I appreciate the aspect of the program that puts decision-making in the hands of non-governmental institutions. I think this facilitates efficient use of tax-payer dollars.

Jeremy Donaldson, Hope Academy, Minneapolis, MN

We have a critical community project that we are planning to build this year using CDFI funds. It will create new jobs and help small business owners.

Dana Nelson, Tubman, Minneapolis, MN

We ask for your support because CDFIs are a reliable and thoroughly vetted resource to urban, suburban, and rural communities across the country, ensuring businesses and homebuyers have access to capital that helps alleviate generational poverty.

Renay Dossman, Neighborhood Development Center, Saint Paul, MN

CDFIs drive economic mobility in a way that positively transforms communities in many ways. It’s relevant for folks with a business/economy-first mentality to know: CDFIs create small businesses, develop financially stable households, and increase low-come families’ spending power. These are metrics that are meaningful to people of all political views. Investing in the CDFI Fund pays dividends to the broader economy. This is not a politically divisive line item in the budget. Fund the CDFI Fund!

Kit Fordham, Mni Sota Fund, Minneapolis, MN