Certification, CDFI Fund programs, deployment strategy, and the operating realities of community development financial institutions.
Certification, CDFI Fund programs, deployment strategy, and the operating realities of community development financial institutions.
How Treasury's bond guarantee works, why the $100 million floor keeps most CDFIs out, and which institutions serve as Qualified Issuers for the rest.
Read more →Why a CDFI Fund FA award is matching capital rather than free money, how the match drives sequencing, and what it does to lending capacity.
Read more →The seven tests a CDFI must meet for Treasury certification, why the target market test causes the most trouble, and what the 2023 revision changed.
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