The CDFI Fund: 20 Years of Creating Opportunities and Uplifting Communities

The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has been tackling and solving the economic needs of low-income communities for two decades.

In celebrating its 20 years of helping low-income individuals and families increase their access to capital, the Obama administration gathered government officials, business executives, and community leaders at the Treasury Department to mark the achievements of the CDFI Fund and to examine its promise of maintaining success.

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Federal Programs Related to - Community Development, General/Other

Programs that focus broadly on strengthening, unifying and building the economic, cultural, educational and social services of a community or neighborhood and improving the quality of life for all. Community Building; Community Capacity Building; Community Development and Improvement; Community Development Block Grants; Healthy Communities Community Economic Development Programs that provide technical assistance and funds to help communities retain and recycle income within the community by investing in the development of local institutions and businesses. Business Growth; Business Loans; Economic Growth; Economic Transformation; Real Estate Organizations; Socioeconomic Development; Technology Transfer; Transfer of Technology; Urban Enterprise Zones

Federal Programs Related to - Community Renewal

Programs that clear slums and renew or rehabilitate old housing and other structures in blighted and depressed sections of the community in order to provide a safe, sanitary and pleasant place for people to live and work and to attract private investment in business and industry. Brownfields Redevelopment; Community Revitalization; Model Cities; Slum Clearance; Urban Homesteading; Urban Redevelopment; Urban Renewal; Urban Revitalization

Federal Programs Related to - Public, Society Benefit, General/Other

Programs that focus on promoting the effective functioning of government, public administration and public officials and support or provide services required for the effective functioning of society's infrastructure.

Federal Programs Related to - Community Economic Development

Programs that provide technical assistance and funds to help communities retain and recycle income within the community by investing in the development of local institutions and businesses.

Business Growth; Business Loans; Economic Growth; Economic Transformation; Real Estate Organizations; Socioeconomic Development; Technology Transfer; Transfer of Technology; Urban Enterprise Zones