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.
Bronze Valley's mission is to empower under-resourced entrepreneurs by providing holistic venture capital solutions that catalyze innovation and impact.
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.
CFNE’s mission is to work for economic, social, and racial justice by advancing community based, cooperative, and democratically owned or managed enterprises with a preference to assisting cooperatives in low-income communities by:
● Providing financial products at reasonable rates;
● Developing business skills; and
● Offering an investment opportunity that promotes socially conscious enterprises
Our vision is of economic justice for all through thriving cooperative enterprises.
CFNE was founded in 1975 by cooperative developers to address the need for debt products suited to the shared ownership model of food co-ops. Food co-ops were thriving, as communities across the northeast embraced a community-owned model for healthy food access. However, the shared ownership structure that provided so many benefits to workers and communities also posed barriers to accessing capital from conventional sources, a dynamic that remains true today.
Over the decades since we launched, CFNE has grown to a staff of 15, located in 6 states across the northeast. In 2021 we changed our name from the Cooperative Fund of New England to Cooperative Fund of the Northeast, reflecting our staff expansion into New York state. Our borrower portfolio expanded to include co-ops beyond the food sector, such as housing, resident-owned communities (ROCs), worker co-ops, consumer and producer co-ops, and a small number of nonprofits and land trusts. And we have increasingly incorporated a racial justice lens into our work, resulting in Racial Justice becoming the North Star (key strategic goal) of our strategic plan in 2020.
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.
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.
