Our mission is to develop & promote Black business enterprises through education, training, loans, investments, and other activities & aggressively promote an atmosphere conducive to their development.
The mission of the Chicago Community Loan Fund is to provide flexible, affordable and responsible financing and technical assistance for community stabilization and development efforts and initiatives that benefit low- to moderate-income neighborhoods, families and individuals throughout metropolitan Chicago.
CCLF was founded in 1991 by a group of visionary social-investment advocates. Their aim was to create a nimble, flexible nonprofit lender who would fill the community development credit gaps as they emerged across the city and region. In particular, CCLF was created to ensure that Chicagoland community developers (including small and emerging groups) would have a lender to turn to for harder-to-underwrite projects and enterprises.
Community Capital Housing’s mission is to be the premier source of investment capital for the NeighborWorks network and the community development industry.
The Connecticut Green Bank is the nation’s first green bank, an entity that accelerates the deployment of clean energy using limited public dollars to attract private capital investment in clean energy projects. In doing so, it makes clean energy more affordable and accessible to consumers. Established by the Connecticut General Assembly in July 2011, our mission is to confront climate change and provide all of society a healthier and more prosperous future by increasing and accelerating the flow of private capital into markets that energize the green economy.
The National Development Council (NDC) is the oldest nation-wide non-profit community development organization in the U.S. Established in 1968, at the beginning of the community development movement, Entering its 50th year, NDC is a “one-stop” resource for financing and assistance in economic development and job creation, community and neighborhood revitalization, and affordable housing, as well as for building local capacity in all these endeavors.
To strengthen communities, build assets and improve lives in economically distressed areas of the Deep South by providing access to high quality financial products and related services.
As leaders in the field, we have built a network and a group of innovative social enterprises that deliver powerful results for the people and communities we serve. Through Housing Partnership Network, we leverage our collective talent, market power, and business innovation to achieve more together than we could acting alone.
IFF champions nonprofits across the Midwest to shape more equitable and vibrant communities through community-centered lending, development, and real estate solutions.
