Building CDFI Capacity in Lending and Business Models

Pamela DeGraff Porter

Cascade, 2013, vol. 2

Abstract: Over the past three decades, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have been nimble innovators, offering products and services to people, projects, and organizations that mainstream financial institutions could not or would not serve. They opened new lending pathways to address some of the most stubborn challenges facing poor communities across the country. The focus of CDFIs was originally on financing affordable housing and then shifted in recent years to financing schools and child-care centers, healthful food markets, small and microbusinesses, and community health centers.

Keywords: financial services; low-income; CDFI; community development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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