Borrower Stories How One Detroit Credit Union is Giving its Members a Second Chance Catherine Dorsey had always dreamed of becoming a nurse. In 2016, the Detroit resident took…MattNovember 3, 2022
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners Meet The Disability Opportunity Fund, The CDFI Behind West Virginia’s First Fully Accessible Hotel Charlie Hammerman didn’t aspire to start his own CDFI; however, since his daughter was born…MattOctober 11, 2022
Borrower Stories How The Council On Alcoholism And Drug Abuse Of Northwest Louisiana Is Leveraging A Credit Union Partnership To Rebuild People’s Self-Worth Bill Rose recently celebrated a big milestone: 34 years of sobriety. That also happens to…MattSeptember 14, 2022
Borrower Stories How Terri-Nichelle Bradley is Bringing Black Representation To Target’s Toy Aisles Terri-Nichelle Bradley used to be frustrated with her job. What had begun as an exciting…MattAugust 24, 2022
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How Metropolitan Economic Development Association Is Scaling Itself To Shrink Minnesota’s Racial Wealth Gap Over the course of their careers as inpatient nurses, Murwo Elmi, Ikraan Abdulle, Farhia Abdulahi,…MattJuly 18, 2022
Borrower Stories Meet Lorain Francis, Whose Full-Time And Volunteer Jobs Are To Fight Food Insecurity In Maine Although Lorain Francis hasn’t always worked on the frontlines of food insecurity, she’s been surrounded…MattJune 24, 2022
Borrower Stories How Toni Hopkins Embraced Her Entrepreneurial Side To Open Cool J’s Apparel During The Pandemic In the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, Toni Hopkins and her husband talked…MattApril 15, 2022
Borrower Stories How Project Fighting Chance Is Going Beyond The Boxing Ring To Build Trauma Resiliency In San Bernardino’s Youth When Terry Boykins was first approached to serve on the board of directors for a…MattApril 6, 2022
Borrower Stories Meet Mellaney Williams, The Big Dreamer Behind American Home and Commercial Services Mellaney Williams When Mellaney Williams and her husband graduated college and moved to South Carolina…MattMarch 11, 2022
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners These Maine CDFIs Are Showing Mainstream Lenders How to Open Doors For Muslim Borrowers When Yassin arrived in western Maine in 2008 as a refugee from Djibouti, he knew…MattFebruary 11, 2022