NY18 Stories and Data

NY18 Stories

CDFI Program Financial Assistance Success Stories: Spring Bank
A CDFI program in NYC enabling low-income employees to access affordable credit, improve credit scores, and build savings
BOLD Charter School
Construction of a 60,000 square feet charter school facility featuring 27 classrooms, small breakout rooms, an art room, music room, science labs, cafeteria/gymnasium, and administrative spaces.
Pickleball Mania
AE financing helped Lesa Carter expand her community recreation business, offering events like family nights for 75+ attendees.
The Juice Collective
AE helped LaTeka Cooke-Davis start her juice bar when others wouldn’t; she’s expanding from Horseheads to downtown Elmira.

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Testimonials

CDFIs are filling in gaps in the capital markets that make financing more widely accessible and contribute to greater economic prosperity for all.

-Jennifer Talansky, Nonprofit Finance Fund, New York, NY

In Syracuse’s depressed economy, CDFIs have been a lifeline for aiding some of the most financially challenged residents and businesses. My credit union has leveraged CDFI funds to lift many households out of poverty, and we need this to continue.

-Susan Hamilton, Syracuse Cooperative Federal Credit Union, Syracuse, NY

CDFIs provide access to critical financial services and education in a way that’s accessible to and designed for low income and low wealth people and families. CDFIs help strengthen the US economy by expanding opportunities for homeownership, small business, and consumer credit., and federal grants to CDFIs are leveraged many times over by private capital. Due to the success of this work, the CDFI Fund has been sustained by broad, bipartisan support for 25 years.

-Christina Sauve, Cooperative Federal, Syracuse, NY

Map of NY18 CDFI Branches and Stories