CDFIs Finance Economic Opportunity
CDFIs Work for an Inclusive Economy
Across the U.S., broad economic opportunities are still out of reach for many communities. Families across the country struggle to build wealth, access affordable housing, or secure the capital needed to start and grow businesses. Persistent gaps in income, homeownership, and business ownership continue to limit the full potential of our nation’s economy.
CDFIs know that strong economies are essential to thriving communities. By bringing affordable, responsible capital to places the financial mainstream often overlooks, CDFIs help ensure that people in rural towns, urban neighborhoods, and Native communities alike can contribute to — and benefit from — America’s economic growth.
CDFIs carry forward a mission rooted in expanding opportunity where it has been historically scarce. The work is both practical and essential: building pathways to prosperity, strengthening local economies, and ensuring that every community has a fair chance to succeed.
CDFIs Invest In People and Communities
CDFIs believe everyone deserves equal and fair access to quality jobs, affordable housing, health care, education, and the chance to build wealth for themselves and their families.
CDFIs Make a Difference
CDFIs work to close wealth gaps and create an inclusive economy with fair, equitable financial products and services that help hardworking individuals and families build wealth — nationwide, CDFI clients are 68% people of color.
Close the Wealth Gap
Get to know CDFIs. Invest with us. Borrow with us. Partner with us to make an impact for people and places with great potential who deserve equal economic opportunity to contribute to their communities and our economy.