Director Annie Donovan has deep roots in community development and finance. She was most recently Chief Executive Officer of CoMetrics, a social enterprise that provides high quality, affordable business intelligence tools to small businesses and nonprofits seeking to improve financial management, better measure social impact, and increase their capacity for innovation.

Prior to CoMetrics, Director Donovan was Senior Policy Advisor to the White House, working collaboratively with the Office of Social Innovation and the Council on Environmental Quality. She was part of a team focused on advancing impact investing, social enterprise and impact data as key strategies for improving the social sector. Donovan has been Chief Operating Officer of Capital Impact Partners, a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) where she was instrumental in creating the high performing teams and strategic plans that positioned Capital Impact as a market leader in the areas of education, health care, long terms care and affordable homeownership finance. She led the company's efforts to build capacity in fundraising, policy, and innovation.

Director Donovan has also been a thought leader and a board member of many of the highest performing organizations in the community development sector, including serving as President of the New Markets Tax Credit Coalition. She has published papers and articles for the National Academy for Public Administration, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, Forbes, and the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship. She has an undergraduate degree in Economics and an MBA in Finance.

SPEECHES BY ANNIE DONOVAN

Keynote Address by CDFI Fund Director Annie Donovan at the 2018 Opportunity Finance Network Conference

NOVEMBER 05, 2018

Thank you for the kind introduction, Jim. Thank you Lisa Mensah and the OFN Board of Directors for the invitation to join you this afternoon. It's great to be here in Chicago, a town steeped in community development history! It's always a pleasure to (...)

Keynote Address by Director Annie Donovan at the 2016 CDFI Coalition Institute

MARCH 09, 2016

IntroductionThank you, Connie, for your kind introduction. It is great to be here at the CDFI Institute. I want to express my gratitude to the CDFI Coalition for inviting me to speak and for your support for the CDFI Fund and the CDFI industry over the y (...)

Keynote Address by Director Annie Donovan at the 2015 CDFI Coalition Institute

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Thank you, Ray, for your kind words. I also would like to thank the CDFI Coalition for giving me this opportunity to speak, and for their longstanding support for the CDFI Fund and the CDFI industry. It is an honor and a pleasure for me to join you here (...)

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BLOG POSTS BY ANNIE DONOVAN

The CDFI Fund's Guiding Principles

MARCH 09, 2016

Today I spoke at the 2016 CDFI Coalition Institute to discuss the CDFI Fund's recent accomplishments and our upcoming objectives. You can read my full speech here, but I wanted to take a moment to emphasize an important development for the CDFI Fund that (...)

CDFI Fund Retires CIIS-Compliance Reporting is Now Live in AMIS

SEPTEMBER 04, 2018

Earlier this summer, the CDFI Fund announced that it was integrating award recipient reporting into the Award Management Information System (AMIS). I am very happy to report that the transition is now complete and the Community Investment Impact System (C (...)

The Impact of Community Investing

MAY 25, 2017

One of the most energizing aspects of my job as director of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) is engaging with a diverse array of stakeholders who care about creating economic opportunity in distressed communities and telli (...)

Marcia Sigal is the Deputy Director for Policy and Programs for the CDFI Fund, where she oversees the efforts of all of the CDFI Fund's award programs in support of the CDFI Fund's strategic vision. She previously served as the Program Manager of the Capital Magnet Fund. Prior to joining the CDFI Fund, Ms. Sigal was the Director of the Program Policy Division for the Office of Affordable Housing Programs in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. 

Ms. Sigal's expertise as a community development policy analyst and innovator served her well as the Director of Community and Economic Development at the Council of State Community Development Agencies, an Affordable Housing Policy Analyst for the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO), and Management Analyst at the Fairfax, VA Department of Housing and Community Development. In these roles, Ms. Sigal has shaped national outcome measurement metrics for community development programs, designed and launched new community development and affordable housing policies and programs, and developed capacity building and technical assistance programs for non-profit organizations as well as state and local governments. 

She has a Master's Degree in City Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attended Cornell University, where she studied community services and social work.