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The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) in the U.S. Department of the Treasury was authorized to administer the program. CDEs apply to the CDFI Fund each year for an "allocation authority" (the authority to raise a certain amount of capital, known as Qualified Equity Investments (QEIs), [5] from investors). In 2001 ...
The CDFI Fund and the legal concept of CDFIs were established by the Riegle Community Development and Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994. Broadly speaking, a CDFI is defined as a financial institution that: has a primary mission of community development , serves a target market, is a financing entity, provides development services, remains ...
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) is a US non-profit community development financial institution (CDFI) that supports community development initiatives across the country. It has offices in nearly 40 cities and works across 2,100 rural counties in 44 states. [ 2 ]
In October 2016, Capital Impact received a $2.4 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative award through the 2016 program round of the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institution Fund. [15] Capital Impact invested $5.9 million in New Markets Tax Credits to The Commons development at Stanton Square in Washington D.C., which ...
As of September 1, 2005, there were 747 certified CDFIs in the U.S. The CDFI Fund offers a variety of financial programs to provide capital to CDFIs, such as the Financial Assistance Program, Technical Assistance Program, Bank Enterprise Award Program, and the New Markets Tax Credit Program. [2]
A community development bank (CDB) or Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) is a development bank or credit union that focus on serving people who have been locked out of the traditional financial systems such as the unbanked or underbanked in deprived local communities.
The bottom line: If I don’t need to withdraw emergency funds during a job loss, I earn all savings and CD interest for a total of $462, a 16.7 percent increase over $396 if all $13,200 is in a ...
Gore's platform included measures aimed at "revitalizing distressed communities". This included creating and funding more empowerment zones and enterprise communities (EZs and ECs), tax credits and grants as part of the New Markets Initiative, and $35 million increased funding for the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. [36]