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Tag: Disaster Relief

Daddy's Soul Food

3 Milwaukee Businesses Surviving COVID-19 with CDFI Support

Milwaukee, WI

July 6, 2020

Established in 1987, Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Women’s Business Initiative Corporation (WWBIC) provides quality business education and access to capital for entrepreneurs throughout the state. Today the WWBIC team

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CTI Environmental Inc.

Southern California Engineering Firm Expands with CDFI Loan

Long Beach, CA

January 15, 2020

Robin Thorne is the founder and CEO of CTI Environmental Inc., an engineering and construction consulting firm based in Long Beach, California, that focuses on

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Chicks With Class

Small Business Survives Hurricane Harvey with Support of Local CDFI

Houston, TX

June 14, 2019

June 13, 2019 Recognizing the need for empowerment programs in her community in Houston, Texas, U.S. Army veteran Margo Jordan-Baines started Chicks With Class in 2013. With a mission to blossom

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Self-Help Federal Credit Union Member Finds Solid Ground Post-Katrina

San Francisco, CA

August 6, 2017

CDFI helps client gets where he needs to be

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Hope Enterprise Corporation Helps Couple Go Home Again

Pass Christian, MS

August 7, 2016

CDFI supports rebuilding of houses and dreams in hurricane ravaged Mississippi Gulf Coast

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Hope Enterprise Corporation Helps Bring Fresh Food to a Devastated City

New Orleans, LA

August 8, 2014

Historic Circle Foods grocery rebuilds thanks to mid-South CDFI

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Recovering from Superstorm Sandy in Asbury Park

Asbury Park, NJ

July 31, 2014

A New Jersey CDFI helps a seaside business rebuild after Sandy

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Elderly Woman Builds New Home After Fire

Loyall, AK

July 31, 2013

An Appalachian CDFI helps an elderly woman recover from a late-night fire that destroyed her home

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A Small-Town Bookstore and a Woman’s Comeback

Barre, VT

July 31, 2012

How a small-town entrepreneur got a $40,000 loan to realize a lifelong business dream

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