Community Partners New Covenant Dominion Credit Union’s Small Staff Has Big Dreams For The Bronx—And Beyond Since New Covenant Dominion Credit Union came to life in 2007, Rachel Macarthy has worn…MattMarch 8, 2023
Community Partners How Opportunities Credit Union Is Setting Up Itself—And Its Community—For Financial Success From a young age, Kate Laud dreamed about someday being a CEO. At Dartmouth, Kate…MattFebruary 14, 2023
CDFIsCommunity PartnersEqualityImpact Investing Revolutionizing sustainable growth: Black-led financial institutions unleash potential with capital access and financial resources Authored by CNote's Director of Due Diligence, Julia Phipps In the U.S. much of how…petraFebruary 13, 2023
Borrower StoriesCommunity Partners How First Southwest Bank Is Helping Community Banks Become Better Banks In 2013, Kent Curtis had a question to answer. As the president and CEO of…MattDecember 12, 2022
Community Partners How Chicago Community Loan Fund Is Filling Lending Gaps To Grow Wealth When Wendell Harris found himself out of a job in 2013, he wasn’t exactly sure…MattOctober 18, 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
Community Partners How VCC Bank Is Using Mission-Driven Lending To Strengthen The Commonwealth When Virginia Community Capital was established by a group of bipartisan state legislators in 2006,…MattOctober 7, 2022
Community Partners Meet Kaua’i Federal Credit Union, The CDFI Investing In Its Island Community “I never thought I would end up working in a financial institution,” says Ivory Lloyd…MattAugust 11, 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
Community Partners How Capital For Change Uses CNote To Create More Possibilities In Its Community For the better part of 15 years, Charles Bodie worked for a large, multinational investment…MattJune 17, 2022
Community Partners Easy As C-C-C: How Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Uses Capital, Coaching, and Connections to Help Georgia’s Small Business Owners Thrive Martina Edwards knows what it’s like to be given an opportunity to break down barriers.…MattJune 10, 2022
CNoteCommunity Partners Authentic and Shareable Impact: Best Practices for Credit Unions On May 24th, 2022 CNote hosted a webinar alongside CUNA Strategic Services where they discussed…petraMay 27, 2022
Community Partners Meet Education Credit Union, Whose Scholastic Roots Sprout Innovative Programs In The Texas Panhandle While Education Credit Union (ECU) may be 86 years old, it’s finding new ways to…MattMay 12, 2022
Community Partners Meet Michelle Corson, ‘The Car Lady’ Behind the CDFI That Gets Clients On the Road Since she was a little girl in Texas, Michelle Corson has always loved cars, something…MattMarch 22, 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
CNoteCommunity Partners Free Resources for Growth in 2022 On January 26th, 2022 CNote hosted a webinar alongside Inclusiv and CUNA Strategic Services where…petraFebruary 1, 2022
Community Partners How Credit Unions Rose To The Challenges Presented By PPP Loan Issuance And Forgiveness When Jim Barnhart pushed pause on his 34-year-long career in banking, he never could have…MattJanuary 3, 2022
Community Partners Turning Dreams Into Reality: How Appalachian Community Capital’s Donna Gambrell Is Helping CDFIs To Thrive Donna Gambrell’s journey into the world of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) was, as she…MattDecember 2, 2021
Community Partners Meet Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund, the CDFI Aiming to Become ‘Harlem’s CDFI’ Although Hamil Douglas self-identifies as a reformed banker, he’s appreciative of his extensive experience in…MattOctober 28, 2021
Community Partners Meet the Black Hills Community Loan Fund, A Native CDFI Rooted In Its Community, And Growing With It When Onna LeBeau took the job of Executive Director for the Black Hills Community Loan…MattJune 19, 2021
Community Partners How the Power of a Shared Voice is Pushing the First-of-its-Kind African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs to New Heights Lenwood Long has been immersed in the world of community economic development since the 1980s,…MattMay 19, 2021