Community Capital Pilots & Grants

Community lenders already know how to reach the entrepreneurs and neighborhoods that traditional capital overlooks. The constraint has never been willingness. It has been the infrastructure around them

Through grants, recoverable capital, and program-related investments, we back the CDFIs, cooperatives, and mission-aligned funds building new infrastructure for how community capital moves. Our first program under this pillar is the CDFI Gateway, with more to follow.

Shield

The CDFI Gateway

Our flagship program. Shared infrastructure that gives community lenders faster access to institutional capital, without each of them building it alone. Capital that typically sits locked for years can recycle in weeks.

"The lenders we fund have been doing this work for decades. Our role is to clear the path so they can do more of it."

Mũthoni Kiarie, Co-founder and Executive Director, Zult Impact

PILOTS & PROGRAMS

Demonstration Pilots,Co-Designed with the Field

Beyond the CDFI Gateway, this pillar funds pilots designed and tested alongside the institutions doing the work. Each one builds evidence the entire field can use, documented, measured, and published openly so any of the 1,400+ community lenders in the field can adopt what works.

Check Catalytic grants and recoverable capital deployed to community lenders and mission-aligned funds
Check Findings published openly, frameworks released for community lenders to adopt
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