Board Member Stories and Data

Built to Scale: Designing a Business with Scale in Mind
St. John Manor
Catonsville CO-OP brings together food, community, and local businesses
A Grand Opening Like No Other

Testimonials

We are a nonprofit Chamber of Commerce that does microlending for small businesses. We work with a CDFI bank and are trying to get CDFI certification.

-Immanuel Bassey, South Dakota Black Chamber of Commerce, Sioux Falls, SD

CDFIs are a great, cost-effective way to support development in rural, suburban and urban communities in a public/private finance model heavily weighted to the private side. In our case in enabled locating our manufacturing plant in an area where people needed jobs.

-Don Leeper, Bookmobile, Minneapolis, MN

These funds were used to construct our high school building, which has served thousands of students and families in our community.

-Todd Peterson, Hiawatha Academies, Minneapolis, MN