A review of budget documents suggests the Obama Administration is seeking a $250 million allocation for the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund for fiscal year 2011.

The administration released its proposed budget for the next fiscal year today. Congress still has to set the budget's actual spending levels. Credit unions that the CDFI Fund has certified as CDFIs are eligible to apply for grants from the fund.

The administration's budget increases money available for financial assistance grants to CDFIs from $108 million in this year's budget to $155 million for next year and leaves the amount of money budgeted for assistance to Native American CDFI's at $12 million.

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