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Mill Cities Community Investments small business and homeowner clients

Massachusetts CDFI Tackles Wealth Gap Through Access to Capital

August 15, 2024

Oklahoma Assistive Technology Foundation, featured work

Oklahoma CDFI Helps People with Disabilities Finance Lifechanging Assistive Technology

Julian Wyatt (right), Director of Urban Strategies, Inc. together with partners from the Trust Foundation.

St. Louis CDFI Expands Small Business Lending to Advance Racial and Economic Equity

Harold Pettigrew, OFN President and CEO, along with OFN CEO members at the Hatchery food incubator in Chicago

We Are Made for This Moment

An in-person retreat in San Diego brought together the full staff and board members of the International Rescue Committee's Center for Economic Opportunity (IRC-CEO) in March 2023.

CDFI Consumer Loans Help Immigrants and Refugees Climb Economic Ladder

Beth Lipson talking to 2022 OFN conference audience

Past, Present, Future: A Message From Beth Lipson

The Hawai'i Community Lending team members

Native CDFI Makes Affordable Housing on Homelands a Reality for Local Hawaiians

Youma Ba, owner of Kilimanjaro Restaurant located in Philadelphia received funding from TEC Capital

Philadelphia CDFI Promotes Racial and Economic Equity Through Investment in Small Businesses

Foggy California Northern Valley landscape at sunset. VOICES Beyond Land Acknowledgement: How CDFIs Can Support Land Justice Catherine Howard, President of Community Vision; Rebecca Tortes, Director of the California Tribal Fund; Camille Clinton, Senior Content Developer at Community Vision Community Vision’s Reparative Land Fee Program partners with Indigenous communities to redistribute power and address the wounds of colonialism and systemic racism. Read time: 8 minutes In 2021, the California-based CDFI Community Vision launched a Reparative Land Fee Program directs financial resources to Indigenous communities and offers a step towards healing the historical and ongoing theft of life, land, and culture.

Beyond Land Acknowledgement: How CDFIs Can Support Land Justice