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  CDFI Awards Seek to Make Big Impact on Underserved

  By David Morrison  |  August 27, 2012

  Money from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund’s latest round of funding will help credit unions offer members alternatives to high cost payday and auto loans, improved savings options, financial education and loans to bring fresh food into neighborhoods that currently do not have any, according to...

• Editor’s Column: All Hail the Victorious Underdogs

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  August 20, 2012

  The theme of the news this week has been underdogs winning their battles by scrapping it out for what’s right. From credit unions to regulators, these unexpected victors deserve to bask in their spoils of the moment.

• CDFI Fund Provides $15 Million to Industry

  By David Morrison  |  August 20, 2012

  Twenty-four credit unions or credit union organizations received grant assistance from the U.S. Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund in the latest round of funding.

• End of an Era: No More Bond Sales at the Branch

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 19, 2011

  Treasury to sell U.S. Savings Bonds through website only as of Jan. 1.

• Credit Union Program, CDFI, CFPB Budgets on Chopping Block

  By Claude R. Marx  |  June 23, 2011

  The House Appropriations Committee today is considering a spending bill that would cut the NCUA’s Community Development Revolving Loan Fund by 75% and 19% from the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund.