The future of the federal Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund remains embroiled in politics and uncertainty that’s trickling down to the community lenders that rely on it as a ...

At a time when diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) are under assault, there is an opportunity to find common ground with community development financial institutions (CDFIs). These ...

In a shifting and uncertain world, community-based organizations are hard put to secure funding for their initiatives. Urban centers like New York City see that challenge expressed in growing ...

The deal to reopen the federal government earlier this month reversed the mass firings of thousands of federal workers. Among those who got their jobs back are the entire staff at the Community ...

Community development financial institutions around the country have been roiled by the Trump administration’s March 14 executive order targeting the CDFI Fund for elimination “to the maximum extent ...

Circle's Elisabeth Carpenter discusses how regulated stablecoins can provide financial access to underserved populations through aid and commerce.

The Fund’s potential dissolution could dismantle a 30-year infrastructure of capital access for small businesses and community finance institutions across the country. For more than three decades, the ...

Revitalizing American communities and industries has been a core priority for the Trump administration. Congress and federal agencies are pursuing policies aimed at increasing financial resilience and ...

Rachel Bridenstine might have the most important job that most Akronites have never heard of in the city: president of the Summit County Development Finance Authority (DFA). It’s a role she stepped ...

Kern’s poor and underserved Hispanic communities are the focus of a local credit union’s recent campaign to establish a type of financial institution that could introduce new forms of help for people ...