CDFI

• CDFI Fund Awards Include 23 Credit Unions

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 6, 2012

  Community Development Financial Institutions grant $187 million to 210 organizations.

• Grant Writer CU Strategic Planning Touts 76% CDFI Success Rate

  By Natasha Chilingerian  |  June 20, 2012

  Spokane, Wash.-based CU Strategic Planning won more money for credit unions than any other team of grant writers did, the firm said.

• House Panel OKs Community Development Funds, CLF Borrowing Authority

  By Heather Anderson  |  June 7, 2012

  Appropriations Committee approves 2013 bill that maintains 2012 funding for Community Development Revolving Loan Fund, full CLF borrowing authority.

• Eleven Credit Unions Recognized as CDFI In First Quarter

  By David Morrison  |  May 4, 2012

  Recognition from Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions fund.

• New Orleans CU Fights Food 'Deserts'

  By David Morrison  |  October 10, 2011

  An innovative community development credit union that serves the greater New Orleans area is one of 12 financial institutions to receive federal grant money to help improve the quality of food in their areas.

• ASI Federal Gets CDFI Grant to Help Grocers

  By David Morrison  |  September 19, 2011

  Talks already under way with Ninth Ward merchants, CU says.

• Washington State CU Realizes Business Lending Dream

  By Jim Rubenstein  |  August 31, 2011

  Even during the darkest days of the recession, Terri Salstrom, president/CEO of the $137 million Industrial Credit Union, always had big dreams for her cooperative.

• Three Established CUs and One CU Organizing Effort Receive CDFI Money

  By David Morrison  |  August 25, 2011

  Credit union efforts in Hawaii and South Dakota benefit.

• CDFI Fund Awards More Than $28 Million

  By David Morrison  |  July 24, 2011

  Fourteen credit unions and organizations that work with credit unions received $1.5 million each from the latest round of awards from the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. Their totals were part of more $28 million that went to 27 credit unions and supporting organizations.

• More than $28 Million Moves to CDCUs in Latest CDFI Round

  By David Morrison  |  July 19, 2011

  Foourteen credit unions and supporting organizations awarded $1.5 million each from Treasury program.