President Donald Trump deemed the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund “unnecessary.” Community lenders are ...

With an astonishing return on investment, the Community Development Financial Institutions, or CDFI, Fund has unlocked billions in private capital in economically distressed urban, rural and Native ...

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) boosts economic growth in largely underserved communities that lack traditional access to financing. The CDFI Fund creates a ...

Without the federal support of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, Ohio’s nonprofit Economic and Community Development Institute (ECDI) and other CDFIs like it simply wouldn’t have ...

House Financial Services Committee ranking member Maxine Waters, D-Calif., led a group of Democrats in challenging Treasury ...

The report was in response to a March 2025 executive order aimed at eliminating non-statutory components of various federal initiatives, including the CDFI Fund. The order is a part of a broader ...

As the Trump administration’s budget-cutting activity continues, the Treasury Department has moved to protect the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI), a financial program ...

While CDFI funding is always crucial, these grants are being made available at a time when the future of the CDFI Fund, a key federal funding source for these organizations, has become clouded with ...