TX11 Stories and Data

TX11 Stories

Native CDFIs Fuel Small Business Success Across Indian Country
Business Growth and Expansion
CDFI Program Financial Assistance Success Stories: LiftFund
Helped Guillermo Vasquez launch a stable business in Brownsville, TX, enabling him to send his daughter to college.
Rivertree Academy
The construction of a new elementary school in Lake Como neighborhood of Fort Worth, Texas, allowing the sponsor to double its current capacity and increase enrollment from 100 to 270 students each year.
Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc.
With an $8M NMTC allocation, Affordable Homes of South Texas, Inc. (AHSTI) will construct approximately 50 new single-family homes in 5 different subdivisions in Hidalgo County.

TX11 Fact Sheet

Testimonials

They support small businesses with financial gain and information to further their business

-Jocelyn Williams, HOT Center of Business Excellence, Waco, TX

Since its inception in 1994, PeopleFund – a CDFI and SBA Lender – has deployed more than $1.2 Billion in financial assistance in areas that needed jobs and revitalization in Texas. Almost 60% of this growth took place in the last 5 years. We are also the managing member of the Veteran Loan Fund, a collaborative effort of a growing number of CDFIs across the country supporting Veterans and Veteran spouses start and grow their businesses.

-Gustavo Lasala, PeopleFund, Austin, TX

CDFIs, as mission-driven financial institutions are at the forefront in providing access to capital to underserved borrowers.

-Marsha Diane Krassner, MDK Consulting Group, San Antonio, TX

Map of TX11 CDFI Branches and Stories