June 12, 2024Our 2023 Impact Report outlines the strategies and services we offered to meet this moment, and highlights what worked and…
December 19, 2023This brief highlights sector dynamics that provide important context for any analysis of individual CDFIs, and shares suggestions for both…
October 11, 2023This brief addresses a set of critical questions that will arise as the industry puts this powerful growth strategy to…- March 20, 2023How do differences in bank or lending institution type shape access to credit for small businesses in poor and/or minority…
- March 14, 2023In this paper, we share lessons in six key areas related to microloan origination, including specific practices of CDFIs that…
- October 20, 2022California Communities’ Broadband Needs and the Role of Financial Institutions: Findings from California Reinvestment Coalition Surveys California Reinvestment Coalition
- May 19, 2022The relationship between small business ownership and wealth looms large in the imagination of policymakers and entrepreneurs alike. Indeed, people…
- February 1, 2022Small businesses borrow mainly for four reasons: to start a business, purchase inventory, expand, or to strengthen the firm’s financial…
- November 17, 2021Because business ownership has been a means for many Americans to build wealth, providing loans and grants to entrepreneurs of…
- May 19, 2021Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) loan funds face a common capitalization challenge as they seek to grow—they must raise net…
