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Built to Scale: Designing a Business with Scale in Mind

Wheaton,
Maryland

Latino Economic Development Center

St. John Manor

Bakersfield,
California

Clearinghouse CDFI

Catonsville CO-OP brings together food, community, and local businesses

Catonsville,
Maryland

Baltimore Community Lending

A Grand Opening Like No Other

Sunnyvale,
California

Housing Trust of Silicon Valley

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Testimonials

Native CDFIs are crucial to provide the financing, investment and literacy services to improve economic and social conditions in Native communities where inadequate or non-existent mainstream financial services are commonplace. We are seeing the positive impacts of Native CDFIs across Alaska and Indian country through increased homeownership, profitable Native-owned small businesses and community improvement projects. Supporting Native CDFIs will build stronger, more resilient communities and better the economy for the nation.

-Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

[The CDFI Fund] provides a vital funding source which enables our organization to sustain and start-up businesses in our rural SD communities. Without that support, our rural communities would die because there would be nothing to keep our young families in the communities. The opportunities they need for their careers would be gone.

-Craig J. Carson, GrowSD, Sisseton, SD

CDFIs are not just banks. They are lifelines. Without them, thousands of small businesses-many in overlooked neighborhoods (urban and rural) – would never get access to capital, training, and the support they need to survive, let alone thrive.

-David Wise, Nebraska Enterprise Fund, Omaha, NE

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