Donna Gambrell

• 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.

• 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.

• CUs Applying for CDFI Funds Face Much Competition

  By David Morrison  |  January 31, 2011

  Grant applications from credit unions that are recognized as community development financial institutions to the U.S. Treasury's CDFI Fund may face stiff competition, the fund's data suggested.

• CDFI Fund to Make Award Announcement at CDCU

  By David Morrison  |  August 18, 2010

  Donna Gambrell, director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund will announce new Technical Assistance and Financial Assistance Awards at a community development credit union.

• Bynum Urges More Money for CDFIs

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 9, 2010

  Community Development Financial Institutions need more money to meet the demands of the low-income communities that were disproportionately hurt during the recent economic downturn.

• Treasury Throws Out a Lifeline to CDFIs

  By David Morrison  |  February 10, 2010

  The Obama administration will make money from the Troubled Asset Relief Program available to credit unions, banks and thrifts that have been recognized as community development financial institutions by the Treasury Department's CDFI fund.