Happy Holidays from FUND Consulting!

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. 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 […]

FUND CI continues its deeper dive in the its recent report Bending Toward Justice: Credit Scores as a Measure of CDFI Impact with Talia Kahn-Kravis, the Credit Builder Alliance’s Manager of Innovations and Business Development. CBA is an innovative national nonprofit network dedicated to building the capacity of a diverse and growing network of hundreds […]