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Community Development Nonprofits/Loan Funds
ACCION International
Dedicated to the creation of jobs and income among the self-employed, working poor of the Americas and Africa. Programs provide financial services and training to microentrepreneurs who lack access to traditional bank credit. Through loans to the Latin Am ...
Boston Community Capital
Founded by socially responsible investors in 1985. Builds healthy communities through socially responsible lending and investment. Has invested over $300 million in low-income communities, creating more than 8,000 affordable homes and 1,300 quality jobs, ...
Calvert Social Investment Foundation
Leading innovation in the field of community investment for over 10 years. Calvert Foundation's Community Investment Notes are targeted to nonprofits and social enterprises that build affordable housing, create jobs in low-income communities, fund microen ...
Changemakers
A national public foundation that models and supports community-based social change philanthropy. Our programs work within the philanthropic sector to shift where money is directed--to address root causes--and how it is given, urging individual donors and ...
Chicago Community Loan Fund (CCLF)
Chicago-based community development financial institution, managed according to rigorous standards of the Oppurtunity Finance Network. Has extended affordable, flexible capital and technical assistance to community borrowers building jobs, housing, and hu ...
CL Fund
Invests in western Pennsylvania to increase employment and expand economic opportunity. Since 1990, CL Fund has placed nearly 400 loans across 15 counties, injecting $38.5 million directly into the region. Through entrepreneurial vision, community knowled ...
Clearinghouse CDFI
Provides economic opportunity and improves the quality of life for lower-income individuals and communities through innovative and affordable financing that is unavailable in the conventional market while achieving shareholder objectives.
Coalition of Community Development Financial Institutio
Coordinates industry-wide initiatives and conducts public education and advocacy programs to introduce key audiences to the valuable work performed daily by Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in low-income communities across the nation.
Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
A private nonprofit community development corporation and community development finance institution whose mission is to create economically and environmentally healthy communities in which all people, especially those with low incomes, can reach their ful ...
Community Investing Initiative
The Community Investing Initiative, a partnership of the Social Investment Forum Foundation and Co-op America, is dedicated to increasing the assets in community investments, nationally and internationally. This initiative encourages all investors to plac ...
Community Reinvestment Fund
Founded in 1989, CRF is a national nonprofit organization that has provided more than a half-billion dollars to low-income communities. CRF buys loans from community development lenders, pools them, and sells them to institutional investors. CRF also prov ...
Cooperative Fund of New England
"Invest in Cooperation!" Celebrating 30+ years as a community loan fund lending to cooperatives, employee-owned businesses, and community-based nonprofits. An SRI option that promotes real community economic development, and no investor has lost any money ...
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corp.
Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation established the Small Business Program in 1992 to help stabalize the business community by assisting local entrepreneurs in preserving and expanding their businesses. We provide micro-loans, technical assist ...
E+Co
E+Co, a public purpose investment company, empowers clean energy entrepreneurs in developing countries through business development support and investment capital.
Enterprise Corporation of the Delta
A nonprofit community development financial institution that provides financing and assistance to families, entrepreneurs, homebuyers, and communities in the Mid South Delta and other low-income communities throughout Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, and ...
Finance Fund
A statewide nonprofit intermediary whose clients include community-based nonprofit organizations and for-profit businesses serving low-income communities throughout Ohio. Finance Fund engages in creative approaches that build bridges between capital mark ...
First Nations Oweesta Corp.
First Nation's Oweesta Corporation (OWEESTA) is a subsidiary to First Nations Development Institute. Our mission is to assist native tribes/communities to control, create, leverage, utilize, and retain their financial assets. Oweesta provides loans, inve ...
First Peoples Worldwide
Committed to promoting the rights of indigenous people for self-determination and control over their social and economic futures.
Futuro Forestal
Sustainable forest management in the tropics for businesses and individuals. Our unique methodology generates high timber yield plus ecological improvements.
Grameen Foundation USA
A global nonprofit organization, Grameen Foundation USA provides funding, training, management and technical support, and technology to microfinance institutions that empower the world's poorest people to escape poverty. GFUSA also develops industry innov ...