Impact and Excellence for the Next Five Years
I'm very pleased to release the CDFI Fund's new five-year Strategic Plan: Impact and Excellence. You can read it here.
CDFI Fund's Lisa Jones Wins Service To America Medal
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Last night, Lisa M. Jones received one of eight Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals for her pioneering work to launch the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program.
Snap Stat: Sizing Up Certified CDFIs
Snap Stat is an occasional blog series that uses CDFI Fund data to illuminate the work of CDFIs and other organizations that are directly served by the CDFI Fund. View Snap Stat #1 at the below link.
Snap Stat #1: Sizing Up Certified CDFIs
Have comments about Snap Stat? Send us an e-mail at DataEvidence@cdfi.treas.gov.
Community Development Financial Institutions Finding Innovative Ways to Build Climate Resilience
This blog was originally posted on the White House Blog on May 26, 2016.
On Cue: The CDFI Fund's Innovation Challenge
In November 2015, the CDFI Fund announced that the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO) had won its 2015 Innovation Challenge. The CDFI Fund created the Innovation Challenge to seek new ways to expand or increase investments in underserved communities across the country. AEO won the Challenge with a proposal to develop a screening and assessment tool to connect small businesses searching for loans with a CDFI that may be able to meet their needs when a bank or other lenders cannot.
THE CDFI FUND'S GUIDING PRINCIPLES
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 I discussed: the CDFI Fund's Framework for the Future and our new Guiding Principles.
The CDFI Fund's Guiding Principles
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 I discussed: the CDFI Fund’s Framework for the Future and our new Guiding Principles.
Local Impact of CDFIs in Milwaukee and Chicago
Just before Thanksgiving, I visited Milwaukee and Chicago and had the opportunity to witness the impact that CDFIs are making in those great cities. CDFIs nationwide are building businesses, creating jobs, and developing housing, and the CDFIs in Milwaukee and Chicago are no exception.
Welcome to the new CDFI Fund website!
I hope you enjoy the new site, which was designed to better serve YOU, the CDFI Fund's applicants and awardees and members of the public, as you look for more information about our programs. There may be a whole new look and feel, but the same in-depth information you've come to expect from the CDFI Fund is still here.
Telma Holmes
Office of The Deputy Director - Finance & Operations
Telma Holmes
Acting Deputy Director
Telma Holmes is the Operations Manager of the CDFI Fund and oversees the management of the Fund's infrastructure, including human resources, acquisitions, property, equipment, space logistics, safety, travel, and training. Since joining the Operations team in 2011, she has been the Fund's Small Business Specialist, providing advice to the program offices on procuring small business and informing small business owners on procurement opportunities within the CDFI Fund. She began her career at the CDFI Fund in 2009, serving as Chief Information Officer.
Prior to the CDFI Fund, Ms. Holmes was the Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) of the Treasury Foreign Intelligence Network (TFIN) where she was responsible for developing and directing the successful implementation of a project management plan to stabilize the Treasury Department's only Top Secret IT system.
Ms. Holmes has over 20 years of experience within the Department of the Treasury and has previously been an IT Specialist and Program Analyst within the Office of the Chief Information Officer, a Budget Analyst for the Working Capital Fund Program Office, a Program Analyst within the Information Technology Strategy and Policy division and has served as President of the National Treasury Employee Union.