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Meet Allison Bell, Owner of Little Things Preschool and Daycare

Canon City,
Colorado

Colorado Enterprise Fund

Rebuilding Together

Loveland,
Colorado

Impact Development Fund

Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation Lending in PA District 1

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Assistive Technology Foundation

CDVCA Invests in Goodwrx

Las Vegas,
Nevada

Community Development Venture Capital Alliance

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Thank you to our partners at Inclusive and CDBA for sharing data on CDFI Bank and CDFI Credit Union branch locations. In addition, about 100 of our CDFI Stories come from OFN’s story database.

CDFI Investment Map

Mapped CDFI investment data (2005-2023), via the CDFI Coalition's partnership with CDFI Friendly America.

CDFI Advocacy App

Want more state data? Check out CDFI Friendly America's mobile-friendly CDFI Advocacy App for impacts from 2005-2023.

I am a real estate broker and development consultant working with emerging developers, small businesses and nonprofits. Many of my clients cannot finance their projects with traditional debt and equity because they don’t come from generational wealth and because their projects are more challenging because they are in markets that are not achieving their full potential yet or meeting critical community needs that don’t produce quite as much profit. CDFI lending has stepped in the gap to solve dozens of critical projects that just need a little boost to get to the finish line, and CDFIs are critical partners to Platform’s work.

Renee Spillum, Platform Commercial Real Estate, SBC, Saint Paul, MN

CDFIs fill a critical void in funding the development of affordable housing. They provide below market interest rates, have flexible terms, and can respond to critical funding needs with more flexibility than a traditional bank/credit union.

Linda Braunschweiger, Housing Trust Fund Ventura County, Ventura County, CA

CDFIs are critical to our economy. They step in where banks can’t – or wont – go. They leverage hundreds of millions of private dollars every year and invest them in underserved businesses and communities, based on need and impact. This is an effective, efficient public-private solution to pressing social and economic issues throughout our country.

Phebe Quattrucci, Quattrucci & Company, South Freeport, ME

CDFIs support individuals, small businesses, community facilities in rural, metro, and Native communities in every state in the nation. CDFIs have enjoyed widespread bipartisan support for decades. They leverage federal government dollars with bank and other private sector support. They are a smart and efficient market solution the federal government should be proud to support.

Donna Fabiani, Fabiani Advisors LLC, Washington, DC