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The CDFI Fund's FY 2016 Year in Review is now available on the CDFI Fund's website. Read Director Annie Donovan's introductory message below, and view the full publication here.
In October 2016, the CDFI Fund released a five-year strategic plan. You can read the plan here. One of the opportunities we saw was the need to re-examine our CDFI certification policies so that the certification reflects the flexibility needed to reach effectively into every community that CDFIs can serve - to more nimbly respond to changes in the financial services sector while still adhering to the primary mission of community development.
As we come to the end of National Native Heritage Month, I want to take a moment to highlight the CDFI Fund’s recent activities dedicated to expanding economic opportunity for Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian communities nationwide.
I'm very pleased to release the CDFI Fund's new five-year Strategic Plan: Impact and Excellence. You can read it here.
I'm very pleased to release the CDFI Fund's new five-year Strategic Plan: Impact and Excellence. You can read it here.
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 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.
Have comments about Snap Stat? Send us an e-mail at DataEvidence@cdfi.treas.gov.
This blog was originally posted on the White House Blog on May 26, 2016.
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.
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.