Navigating the CDFI FA Award Application Process
The CDFI Program FA Awards are opening up for the 2024 round soon, but the process is a complex one and not always easy to follow.
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CU Strategic Planning
- Sep 12, 2023
- 2 min
Louisiana Credit Unions Find Success and Change Lives as CDFIs
For Baton Rouge’s Neighbors Federal Credit Union, the long wait is finally over. While they were awarded $35 million in a secondary...
CU Strategic Planning
- Jul 27, 2023
- 2 min
CDFI Fund Data Could Force Changes to Controversial Application Recommendations
Proposed Application Process Would Exclude ‘Significant Swaths’ of Credit Unions A newly released CDFI Fund report might have forced the...
CU Strategic Planning
- May 11, 2023
- 10 min
Comment Letter: CDFI and NACA Program Financial Assistance and Technical Assistance Applications
The following is the letter CU Strategic Planning provided in response to the Treasury's request for public comment on the Community...
CU Strategic Planning
- May 5, 2023
- 1 min
New Orleans Firemen’s FCU Changes Lives with CDFI Grants – a Case Study
New Orleans Firemen’s Federal Credit Union has been serving underserved communities since before credit unions officially existed. While...
CU Strategic Planning
- Apr 26, 2023
- 2 min
3 Reasons to Apply for a CDFI FA Grant NOW
The Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund has, in recent years, accepted applications for its annual Program...
CU Strategic Planning
- Apr 13, 2023
- 2 min
93% of CU Strategic Planning Applicants Win CDFI Equitable Recovery Program Grants
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund awarded grants totaling $1.73 billion to 603...
CU Strategic Planning
- Mar 7, 2023
- 1 min
A Closer Look at the 2022 CDFI FA Awards
The Treasury's Community Development Financial Institution Fund announced its 2022 Financial Assistance Awards last week, and we were...
CU Strategic Planning
- Feb 28, 2023
- 2 min
CU Strategic Planning Clients Account for Majority of Credit Union FA Awards from CDFI Fund
We're so pleased to announce that the grant applications CU Strategic Planning facilitated for our clients make up 56% of all this year's...
CU Strategic Planning
- Feb 23, 2023
- 1 min
Jodie Harris to Exit as Head of CDFI Fund
Jodie Harris, Director of the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund), announced...
CU Strategic Planning
- Feb 16, 2023
- 2 min
Opportunity for CDFI Credit Unions in EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund
Credit unions are the original socially responsible lenders, and now Community Development Financial Institution-Certified credit unions...
Mike Beall
- Aug 23, 2022
- 5 min
A Season of Changes for CDFIs
Community Development Financial Institutions, and those who work with them, are very aware of the many recent changes that have been put...
CU Strategic Planning
- Jun 23, 2022
- 2 min
CDFI $1.73 Billion Equitable Recovery Program Applications Now Open: Deadline is September 22
Note: since the original publication of this article, the CDFI Fund extended the deadline for ERP applications from August 23 to...
CU Strategic Planning
- May 27, 2022
- 3 min
Leveraging Data Capabilities to Serve CDFI Credit Unions
“How do you know that about our members?” That’s a common question we get from prospects and clients. We’ve learned the critical nature...
CU Strategic Planning
- Apr 14, 2022
- 2 min
CDFI Grant Season Draws to a Close: Hurry Up and Wait
With the click of the “Submit” button on the last of our client FY2022 CDFI FA and TA grant applications, our most intense season is at a...
CU Strategic Planning
- Dec 16, 2021
- 2 min
CU Strategic Planning Wins 100% of Secondary Capital and ECIP Plan Proposals
Half a billion dollars goes to CU Strategic Planning clients in one day; more than all historical and outstanding secondary capital...
CU Strategic Planning
- Dec 9, 2021
- 2 min
CU Strategic Planning Clients Awarded More Than $20 Million from CDFI Fund
CU Strategic Planning is proud to announce that the grant applications we facilitated for our clients make up nearly half of all of this...
Stacy Augustine
- Dec 2, 2021
- 8 min
Letter to the CDFI Fund Advisory Board
The following is the written statement of Stacy Augustine, CU Strategic Planning's President and CEO, provided to the CDFI Fund Advisory...
CU Strategic Planning
- Oct 14, 2021
- 3 min
NCUA’s MDI Mentoring Grant and the CDFI Minority Lending Program Grant: What’s the Difference?
On Oct. 12, the NCUA announced it has opened the doors for credit unions with both a low-income and minority depository institution...
CU Strategic Planning
- Sep 17, 2021
- 2 min
FLAG Credit Union Earns $125,000 CDFI Technical Assistance Award
CU Strategic Planning specializes in writing winning grants applications for The U.S. Treasury's CDFI Financial Assistance Awards, but...
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