WA03 Stories and Data

I represent Northwest Access Fund, a CDFI serving Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. NWAF offers people with disabilities customized loans, financial coaching, and other resources to promote access to assistive technology, independence, financial resilience, and life opportunities. We are helping people with disabilities and seniors who lack the ability to secure financing to afford crucial assistive technologies and modifications – hearing aids, dentures, wheelchairs, adaptive vehicles, and home modifications. We could not to this vital work without the investment from the CDFI Fund.

It is critically important that the United States Department of the Treasury continues to support the work of CDFIS throughout our great nation.

To build communities by providing financial support to under-served entrepreneurs who have been denied financial assistance by other financial institutions.

CDFIs provided necessary funding and support to communities, including small businesses. Economic opportunity is the path to a unified society.