CDFIs finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing.
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The Black Business Investment Fund (BBIF) is a Certified Development Financing Institute (CDFI) and a Community Development Enterprise (CDE) lending institution that specializes in aiding micro, small and minority business owners in building their management capacity and in providing loan capital. The BBIF has served Central Florida's business community for over twenty years through the provision of direct loans, loan guarantees, technical assistance, and advocacy. The BBIF's core business is specializing in providing direct loans and developing business owner's management skills. The organization is primarily interested in projects and activities that have an economic and a community development impact, business investment, charitable, or educational focus.
BlueHub Capital, formerly known as Boston Community Capital, is a Community Development Financial Institution whose mission is to build healthy communities where low-income people live and work. BlueHub provides financing to build affordable housing and education, healthcare, and other community facilities; renovate commercial real estate in distressed neighborhoods; introduce solar power to help contain energy costs of low-income families; and prevent foreclosure. Since 1985, BlueHub has invested over $2 billion in low-income communities.
BOC Capital Corp is a technical assistance led microlender catering to underserved markets and borrowers throughout New York City. Using flexible and non-traditional evaluation criteria, BOC Capital provides innovative loan structures to assist promising entrepreneurs in growing their business. BOC Capital makes loans of up to $25,000 and has established relationships with banks and other microlenders with whom we partner to satisfy the needs of a wide range of clients. The majority of BOC's clients are women and/or ethnic minorities working or living in the Borough of Brooklyn.
The mission of the Brazos Valley CDC (BVCDC) is to provide access to financial products, services and education to the residents and businesses of our community in such a way as to maximize the affordability of safe and decent housing, especially for low-income individuals and families.
Building Hope supports high quality public charter schools in Washington D.C., Florida and other U.S. locations by providing business services, technical and financial assistance for educational facilities. As a non-profit organization, Building Hope supports the expansion of academically successful schools with the capacity to grow their enrollments. This allows Building Hope to catalyze change across the local public education systems by promoting school-centered community revitalization. We believe that excellent charter school programs and facilities will help transform economically depressed neighborhoods into places where children will thrive.
The Business Center for New Americans (BCNA) is dedicated to helping refugees, immigrants, women, and other New Yorkers achieve economic self-sufficiency and wealth creation. We do this through the on-going education and coaching of our clients to successfully establish and run small businesses, save money, and invest in their first home. BCNA makes loans up to $50,000. We have a staff of ten full-time professionals who operate out of two offices.
Since 1958, Business Development Corporation (BDC) has been financing small businesses in South Carolina, ultimately creating new jobs for the citizens of the Palmetto State. BDC and its associate company, Certified Development Corporation (CDC), which was founded in 1994, have approved more than 2,625 loans on projects in excess of $1.5 billion, making us leaders in economic development lending and job creation in South Carolina. Now that BDC has been approved by the state and SBA to operate in seven (7) Southeastern states, we are able to bring these benefits to a much larger market area.
Business Impact NW (BIN) is a non-profit economic development organization formed in 1997. Created to serve under-banked entrepreneurs by providing access to capital and comprehensive business technical assistance. BIN serves startups as well as existing businesses, and is dedicated to helping entrepreneurs at every stage in their business model; whether they are newly established or at a growth stage. BIN’s business assistance centers include the Washington Women’s Business Center (WBC), the Minority Business Development Agency (MBDA), and the Region X Veterans Business Outreach Center (VBOC) offering small business consulting services, training, and networking. BIN also offers a comprehensive suite of financial products to serve the needs of Washington State entrepreneurs.
The C3 Fund lends to real estate investors in Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) neighborhoods in Chicagoland. The Fund’s goal is to provide financing and technical support to create and retain badly needed Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) through innovative capital solutions. The C3 Fund nimbly serves investors with small portfolio rental loans and short-term construction loans that help to maximize the positive community benefits from residential renovation and investment activities.
