Funding Opportunity: USDA Rural Business Opportunity Grants (RBOG)

In 2018, FUND CI released its landmark study Perception vs. Reality: Women and Change in the CDFI Industry. When speaking to women as part of this study, we learned a person’s experience in the industry went beyond gender identification and was the intersection of many things including race/ethnicity and/or sexual orientation. That led us to […]

What is FUND CI thinking about this fall?  People and Place-based strategies. Over the summer, FUND CI conducted an online survey of CDFIs and found that CDFIs are using the following strategies: 23% place based 22% people based 55% both place and people based The survey requested information on the reasons that CDFIs employed people […]

What is FUND CI thinking about this fall?  People and Place-based strategies. In the CDFI industry, many of the recent relief programs, like the Rapid Response Program, were a mix of people and place-based strategies.  However, one program in particular, the Emergency Capital Investment Program (ECIP), strongly focused on people-based interventions. Since we know that […]