OH01 Stories and Data

OH01 Stories

Crossroad Health Center
OFN Story: Ohio Veterans Expand Healthcare Access in Their Community With CDFI Investment
OFN Story: Rural CDFI Uses Innovative Financing to Scale Local Manufacturing Business
Ebony Young

OH01 Fact Sheet

CDFIs have been critical to successfully completing community and economic development projects in distressed and under-resourced communities like Youngstown and Warren, Ohio.

-Sarah Lown, Western Reserve Port Authority, Youngstown, OH

CDFIs help community-focused organizations access capital for traditionally underserved communities.

-Matthew Cook, Matthew Cook Consulting, Columbus, OH

As a CDFI, we are able to provide loans and investments to borrowers for projects that improve the quality of life in our community’s low to moderate income census tracts. Frequently, these transactions are not supported by financial institutions directly under competitive terms and conditions that we as a CDFI can make.

-Dan Kane, Dayton Region New Market Fund, Kettering, OH

Map of OH01 CDFI Branches and Stories