The Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) is launching the CDFI Equitable Recovery Program (CDFI ERP) to provide awards of up to $15 million to Certified Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) for the following purposes:
1) to expand lending, grant making and
credit:
investment activity in Low- or Moderate-Income communities and to borrowers, including minorities, that have significant unmet capital or financial services needs, and were disproportionately impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic; and 2) to enable CDFIs to build organizational capacity and acquire technology, staff, and other tools necessary to accomplish the activities under a CDFI ERP Award.
All Awards provided through this NOFA are subject to funding availability.