In It Together: How Funders and CDFIs Can Advance Shared Prosperity Now
Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are proven partners for advancing financial health, small business growth, and affordable homeownership, yet many funders don’t know how to engage them strategically. With federal funding uncertain and household financial insecurity rising, the case for bold philanthropic action has never been clearer.
Join the Asset Funders Network for the release of Advancing Economic Opportunity with CDFI Partners: What’s Possible?—a foundational brief that explains the role of CDFIs and how funders can partner with them across their full toolkit of grantmaking, investing, and convening. Rooted in more than two decades of CDFI impact—including financing one million small businesses, three million housing units, and 15,000 community facilities—this “prequel” to AFN’s series on specific CDFI strategies equips funders to act with confidence and intention.
Whether you’re a traditional asset-building funder or a community, family, health, or corporate foundation new to CDFIs, this webinar will help you see where your work already intersects, and where you can go further.
Attendees will learn:
- How CDFIs advance economic opportunity and shared prosperity in historically underserved communities
- How asset-building funders can partner with CDFIs using grantmaking, mission-aligned capital, and convening power to advance wealth equity
- What non-traditional funders—including community, family, health, and corporate foundations and Donor Advised Funds—can do to achieve mission and place-based impact
Speakers
Kristen Scheyder, Citi Foundation
Glenn Helme, Target Foundation
The speaker list is currently under development.
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