CDFIs finance community businesses, including small businesses, microenterprises, nonprofit organizations, commercial real estate, and affordable housing.
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The Community Preservation Corporation (CPC) is a nonprofit affordable housing and community revitalization finance company that was formed in 1974 as a direct response to the issues of abandonment and blight that were facing New York City’s neighborhoods at the time.
At CPC we believe that housing is central to transforming underserved neighborhoods into thriving, vibrant communities. We strive to be more than just a lender - working as a partner to provide technical expertise, support and flexible solutions that help meet the capital needs and broader community revitalization goals of our customers, local stakeholders and the communities we serve.
As a mission-driven organization, we have been a catalyst for bringing new partners and sources of public and private funding together to help rebuild, strengthen, and stabilize neighborhoods from the Bronx and Harlem to New Rochelle, Downtown Syracuse and Buffalo, and many others. Since inception, we have invested $9.87 billion and created or preserved over 185,000 units in communities across New York State and beyond.
CVC is a Kentucky CDFI that helps families achieve independence with increased incomes and assets via small business ownership, homeownership, and job creation. CVC's products include broad education, fixed-rate mortgages, and a continuum of business loans (microloan, small business expansion, SBA 7a, SBA 504, and NMTCs).
Formally The Northern California Community Loan Fund (NCCLF), Community Vision is dedicated to strengthening low-income neighborhoods and enabling disadvantaged people to build a better future. Founded in 1987, Community Vision provides financing for a wide range of nonprofit organizations, as well as technical assistance and training programs to help them to improve their financial management skills and their capacity to acquire space. The organization serves 46 counties in Northern California, and, over the past two decades, has created life-changing opportunities for thousands of people and communities in need.
The mission of CWC is simple; we strive to Build People and Places to create financial stability for low-wealth families and communities in the Upstate of South Carolina. Our work goes beyond charity to really help low-wealth families and communities break the cycle of generational poverty through education, lending, and investing.
Cook Inlet Housing Authority (CIHA) believes that quality housing provides a solid foundation on which to further build the overall quality of life. To serve this goal, we provide rental housing, home ownership and home improvement opportunities as well as neighborhood revitalization activities and community partnerships.
Cooperative Business Assistance Corporation(CBAC) is a Community Development Financial Institution dedicated to small business lending in low-income urban areas in Southern New Jersey. By strengthening small businesses, CBAC creates jobs, provides necessary services to local residents, and rehabilitates vacant properties, thus stabilizing area neighborhoods. Since inception, CBAC has made loans totaling over $21.9 million and has retained and created almost 2,900 jobs.
The Cooperative Fund of New England (CFNE) was founded in 1975 by co-op activists and social investors to provide financial and technical assistance to food cooperatives. Since then, the organization has expanded its focus, offering development loans and technical assistance to a wide range of co-ops and nonprofit groups that share CFNE’s vision of equality, justice, and social responsibility. A “virtual” organization, CFNE serves the New England region through an administrative office in North Carolina and four outreach offices in New England.
The Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) is a national CDFI that helps communities create permanent housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. We fulfill our mission by providing technical assistance, training, grants and loans to project sponsors, service providers, affordable housing developers and government partners; and by advocating for a more favorable policy environment for supportive housing creation and operation. Lending is integral in our approach to fostering supportive housing creation at scale.
