CDFIs finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing.
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Capital for Change brings together our 50+ years of knowledge and experience as Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI’s) to create a combined organization that offers a wide array of lending funding and service options. C4C is about engaged, practical and unpretentious partnership. We invest in communities for the benefit of low and moderate income people and families. Our team is savvy about local conditions, values its long-standing network of allies, and cares deeply about creating opportunity and about urban revitalization. Please check back soon for our new website. Until then you can find important information on the websites below.
Capital Good Fund is a nonprofit, certified Community Development Financial Institution that helps people fix their finances. We offer small loans and personalized Financial + Health Coaching to families in Rhode Island, Florida, and Delaware. Our mission is to provide equitable financial services that create pathways out of poverty.
Through capital and commitment, Capital Impact helps people build communities of opportunity that break barriers to success. A nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Capital Impact has a 30+ year history delivering strategic financing, social innovation programs, and capacity building that creates social change and delivers financial impact nationwide.
Capital Plus Financial supports economically disadvantaged communities by providing affordable housing and single family residential mortgages in Texas.
Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF), previously The Support Center, is a statewide nonprofit and CDIF that provides small business loans and technical assistance to start-ups and existing businesses. Our mission is to foster economic development in underserved communities by supporting small businesses as a partner, a small business advocate, an accessible funding resource and a trusted business guide. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for all people. Since 1990, CSBDF has offered services to create economic opportunities for individuals, families and entrepreneurs throughout North Carolina. Our primary activities include small business lending, business services, our Western Women’s Business Center and policy research. CSBDF has forged long-term relationships with a number of partners, foundations, nonprofits, local governments, federal and state agencies, and financial institutions across the state to help achieve its mission.
The mission of CASA of Oregon is to develop housing, programs and facilities that promote the quality of life and self-sufficiency of farmworkers and other low income populations.
Century Housing is a nonprofit corporation working as a financial intermediary for affordable housing and infill developers throughout California to provide quality, affordable and attractive housing. Century has developed or financed more than 21,000 affordable homes.
Champions Funding LLC, a certified CDFI financing entity, provides construction loans to nonprofit developers for the rehabilitation of distressed houses and the construction of new single-family homes on scattered lots for low-income families.
Champions Funding LLC was formed in 2013 to initially help communities fight blight brought on by the foreclosure crisis. Champions Funding’s parent company is in the business of providing contract services to municipalities.
These services include the management and enforcement of property registry ordinances requiring lenders to register properties in default. In the performance of this service, the founders were exposed to a unique view of the municipality’s economically distressed communities and became keenly aware of the need to not only register these properties, but also to help the community revitalize the distressed vacant properties it was registering.
CSDC is a 501(c)(3) and CDFI established to promote competition, choice and innovation in education by financing and building great public charter schools. With offices in Maryland and Colorado, CSDC provides comprehensive and affordable financial and real estate development services to charter schools nationally. CSDC offers high performing charter schools credit enhancements to secure loans and leases through the Building Block Fund, build-to-suit facilities either for lease with option-to-purchase or on an outsourced basis as a fee developer through the Turnkey Development Program, and innovative loan products through CSDC Direct. For charter schools located in Colorado, New Mexico, Utah or Wyoming, CSDC offers financing through its Mountain West Charter Schools Fund.
Chi Ishobak, Inc. is a Certified Native Community Development Financial Institution. Established in 2009 as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation in Michigan, Chi Ishobak serves the citizens of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, a federally-recognized Indian tribe located in Michigan and Indiana. It is the mission of Chi Ishobak to provide economically-disadvantaged tribal citizens with access to affordable capital for the purposes of business loans and individual financial development through collaborative and education-oriented lending services, while practicing responsible lending in order to protect loan capital for future generations of tribal citizens. Chi Ishobak’s financial products consist of a Commercial and a Consumer Loan Program. The Commercial Loan Program provides capital to tribal entrepreneurs for small-business start-up and expansion. The Consumer Loan Program provides capital to tribal citizens to purchase automobiles and to build/repair credit. Chi Ishobak’s developmental services consist of the Financial Wellness Program, Small-Business Development assistance, and an Individual Development Program.
