The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) boosts economic growth in largely underserved communities that lack traditional access to financing. The CDFI Fund creates a ...

The Trump administration's plan to reduce the performance of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund would sacrifice one of the country's most cost-efficient investments in itself, ...

Without the federal support of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Ohio’s nonprofit Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) and other CDFIs like it simply wouldn’t have ...

The OMB has prevented billions of dollars from flowing to community development financial institutions, preventing those funds from supporting housing development, writes Robin Hughes, of the Housing ...

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is urging the Trump administration to release $324 million in funding that was already approved to help small businesses and communities in poor and rural areas.

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) funding serve as vital engines of economic growth and financial inclusion in some of the nation’s most underserved communities. With CDFI funding, ...

Sign up for Trump’s Return, a newsletter featuring coverage of the second Trump presidency. When Dominique Thornhill tried to get a loan to launch a child-care ...

On March 21, the U.S. Department of the Treasury submitted a report to the Office of Management and Budget affirming that all 11 programs administered by the Community Development Financial ...

Carver Federal Savings Bank is one of about 1,500 federally-certified community development financial institutions. (Photo by Oscar Perry Abello) This is your first of three free stories this month.

In communities across Minnesota, a quiet economic revolution has been happening for decades. While Wall Street and the White House dominate today’s headlines, Community Development Financial ...