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- Oweesta: Oweesta is the longest standing Native CDFI intermediary offering financial products and development services exclusively to Native CDFIs and Native communities. Specifically, Oweesta provides training, technical assistance, investments, research, and policy advocacy to help Native communities develop an integrated range of asset-building products and services, including financial education and financial products.
Asset-building tools stimulate reservation economies by providing tribal members the opportunity to acquire financial management skills and build and accumulate assets through small business creation, homeownership, education, and much more.
- MoFi: MoFi is primarily a small business lender, providing loans to disadvantaged entrepreneurs and business owners. MoFi helps people who lack the assets, income, experience, and/or credit history to qualify for bank financing. MoFi provides clients with access to capital through its small business loan program, then pairs each loan with free, comprehensive business training to help them build successful businesses, achieve financial sustainability, and establish a long-term relationship with a bank. MoFi helps clients build economic security, stop living paycheck-to-paycheck, break the cycle of poverty, and join the financial mainstream.
- Montana Community Development Corp (dba MoFi)
- Waianae Economic Development Council
- DBEDT Community-Based Development Corp:The CBED program provides training and capacity building opportunities to promote, support, and invest in community-based development projects that result in measurable economic impact.
- LISC AmeriCorps Program: Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC), headquartered in New York City with an extensive national footprint, is one of the largest nonprofit organizations helping to revitalize communities and bring greater economic opportunity to residents. In partnership with AmeriCorps, the federal agency for national service and volunteerism, LISC places people in service organizations around the country, coupling meaningful community service with training to expand the pool of community development professionals. The LISC AmeriCorps – Economic Mobility Corps (EMC) program focuses on financial counseling services that help LISC AmeriCorps EMC members work one-on-one and in small groups with people in their communities to help individuals gain increased financial knowledge and/or leads to people purchasing or remaining in safe, decent, healthy affordable housing. To learn more visit www.lisc.org/americorps
- U.S. Bancorp Impact Finance: A subsidiary of U.S. Bank, is an industry leader in providing financial solutions that help create positive impact for communities and the environment. For 35 years, its tax credit investments and syndications, lending and other financial solutions have helped create affordable housing, spur economic activity in underserved communities, restore historic buildings, develop renewable sources of energy, and strengthen community development financial institutions (CDFIs) nationwide.
