Community Development Financial Institutions Fund

• 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 Announces CFPB Mortgage Disclosure Hearing

  By Heather Anderson  |  June 12, 2012

  House panel to meet on June 20 and probe the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s mandate to combine residential mortgage disclosures.

• 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.

• Rosenthal to Leave Federation and Join Consumer Bureau

  By David Morrison  |  March 11, 2012

  Clifford Rosenthal, CEO of the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, is leaving the federation to take a position with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

• CDCUs Seek Treasury Funding Approaching

  By David Morrison  |  July 17, 2011

  The National Federation of Community Developing Credit Unions is helping CDCUs organize themselves to take advantage of any opportunity to obtain more government support.

• House Panel Passes Spending Bill Cutting Community Development Funds, CFPB

  By Claude R. Marx  |  June 23, 2011

  NCUA's Community Development Revolving Loan Fund feels the axe in panel cuts; measure now goes to full House.

• 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.

• Small Washington CU Celebrates Secondary Capital Loan

  By David Morrison  |  September 29, 2010

  The $2.2. million Thurston Union of Low Income People Credit Union, headquartered in Olympia, Wash., is celebrating a $75,000 loan from the U.S. Treasury's Community Development Financial Capital Initiative.