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Harry Chapin Food Bank

Fort Myers,
Florida

CAHEC

HCFB will construct an approximately 97,000 SF warehouse and distribution center which will replace its current 54,390 SF facility to expand access to healthy foods, nutrition education, and wraparound services and build community resilience.

OFN Story: Tampa Café Grows Business Operations with Help from Local CDFI

Tampa,
Florida

BBIF

Café provides employment and comfort dishes to working families in Tampa community. Business owner able to overcome challenges of past incarceration to create positive economic and community impact.

Miami Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired

Miami,
Florida

Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Popular Community Capital

The NMTC supported a new 5-story 29,284 sq. ft. expansion to an existing building in the Little Havana neighborhood of Miami, FL. The project is the final pillar to the existing 144,000 sq. ft. campus focused on empowering low-income visually impaired individuals. The Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired takes a multifaceted educational approach to serving students who are blind. Their school, which contains pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, first and second grades, is one component within the Miami Lighthouse’s Children’s Programs. Other Children’s Programs include Early Intervention for Blind Babies and services for elementary and middle school children during the summer, school holidays and Saturdays.

Lotus Children’s Village

Miami,
Florida

Enterprise Community Loan Fund, Florida Community Loan Fund

The project is a new 75,000 SF holistic children’s resource center to be constructed by Lotus Endowment Fund, Inc. to expand its services to low-income children, youth, and families in the disinvested, underserved Overtown neighborhood in Miami, FL. The project includes a high-quality tuition-free early childhood provider, a satellite FQHC clinic, Lotus House’s child therapy program and donation center, as well as spaces for 8 other nonprofit organizations providing services ranging from academic support to youth enrichment. The co-located organizations will collaborate under an innovative collective impact model to develop and share best practices for the delivery of children’s services.

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Florida Fact Sheet

The purpose of CDFI funds are critical to the communities to be able to support people and programs such as affordable housing and financial literacy to improve the wellbeing of the community.

-Tamara Honaker, Launch Credit Union, Merritt Island, FL

The CDFI FA/TA funding is critical to making projects happen and creating opportunities for employment. The NMTC program is critical to important real estate projects in areas like Opportunity Zones and other under invested areas.

-Tammie Hoy, Together Consulting, St. Petersburg, FL

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