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Shelterforce’s Miriam Axel-Lute in conversation with Ed Gorman of NCRC on whether community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are taking enough risk, and therefore, falling short of their mission.

Community lenders try to address the capital crunch faced by small businesses of color.

  When disasters strike, our first responders ensure that emergency resources get to those in need.  But when the immediate danger has passed, communities need a different kind of support.  […]

We are definitely in some danger of losing a connection to the animating social movements that gave rise to the industry.

This book is a major contribution to increasing knowledge and awareness of how far the community development finance movement has come in 30 years.

After the housing crash, Chicago’s 1- to 4-unit rentals weren’t bouncing back in many neighborhoods. Three CDFIs came together to make it happen.

To realize the promise of community investment, the capacity of specific places to absorb available capital needs to grow.

What kinds of emergency measures are advocacy organizations proposing to make sure that when small businesses can open again, they’ll be financially able to do so?

Over the past couple of years, community development corporations have been popping up in sometimes-unexpected places across the country. Will this increased interest in CDCs last, or is it a trend that will end when the money runs out?

Last year, I wrote about the teeming conference of the Opportunity Finance Network, the trade group for community development financial institutions, with a little bit of awe at how different it was from the rest of the community development world in its growth and optimism, worrying about mission creep rather than survival. This year the […]

Each year, the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday prompts people to reflect on Dr. King’s life and legacy. By achieving passage of civil rights and voting rights legislation, the actions of King and others compelled a sharp decline in the blatant discrimination and wanton violence that had permeated the nation for generations. However, today, five […]

CDFIs across the country were trying to do what they could to ease the effects of the recent government shutdown. Here is just a partial list.