Community development financial institutions or otherwise known as CDFIs are powerful tools that are an important player within the continuum of credit spectrum to strategically deploy capital within disadvantaged communities. CDFIs partner with banks and other community development entities to realize the power of partnerships to realize impact.

In this podcast, Mark Pinsky shares a few stories of his CDFI journey and will share his new CDFI Friendly Cities initiative and his deep thoughts about community development.

Mark will share his insights on how communities gain access to valuable and financing for small business, commercial real estate and housing and how you facilitate and lower the costs for CDFIs to expand their coverage and increase their financing activity into new, underserved CDFI markets. He will also share how CDFI investors expand opportunities and attract new investors who have previously lacked knowledge of and opportunities to invest in CDFIs.

Join us on a CDFI journey to transform communities through the power of economic development and the Community Reinvestment Act. Get ready for a fun and meaningful listen!

A few highlights and links to explore:

Mark Pinsky https://moneypluspurpose.com/about/
Opportunity Finance Network https://ofn.org/
Chuck Matthei, Equity Trust http://equitytrust.org/chuck-matthei/

Cheers!

Linda

PC101 Opportunity Zones... a freshly minted new community development tool poised to incentivize private investments in low-income and distress communities across the nation.

Welcome to the CRA Podcast. I’m Linda Lewis Ezuka, your host and Founder of CRA Today. This podcast is part of my mission to transform communities through the power of economic development and the Community Reinvestment Act.

We are lucky enough today to have with us a very good friend of mine and a spectacular human being, Maurice Jones. Maurice Jones is the President and CEO of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (otherwise know as LISC). Mr. Jones will share his perspective on the Opportunity Zones Program recently enacted by Congress.