CDFA Excellence in Development Finance Awards
The CDFA Excellence in Development Finance Awards recognize outstanding development finance programs, agencies, leaders, projects and success stories. These awards are presented to award winners annually at the CDFA National Development Finance Summit to honor excellence in the use of financing tools for economic development and the individuals who champion these efforts. Organizations may nominate themselves and/or their projects for one or more of these categories. Individuals may also nominate themselves or be nominated by their peers and colleagues.
The CDFA Excellence in Development Finance Awards cover a wide variety of financing tools and provide the opportunity for both the public and private sector to be recognized. Creative entries are welcomed, and the private sector is strongly encouraged to collaborate with their public sector partners on submissions. These awards honor excellence, leadership and the creative use of development finance tools such as bonds, TIF, tax credits and revolving loan funds. The awards also highlight the cutting-edge use of development finance tools to support innovation and sustainable development. These awards celebrate individuals and agencies alike to build a distinguished and recognized development finance industry.
2019 CDFA Award Winners
CDFA Distinguished Development Finance Agency Award (State Agency)
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CDFA Distinguished Development Finance Agency Award (State Agency) is presented to an outstanding state development finance agency. This honor is bestowed on a state agency that has tackled particularly complex and challenging financing concerns, revolutionized financing tools or affected the development finance markets in the past two years. In order to be eligible, the state agency must have achieved recent success in the way development finance programs are operated, managed and administered. The goal of granting the award is to make the excellent work done by state development finance agencies in our industry more widely known and to recognize the impact that these groups have on our national economy.
CDFA Distinguished Development Finance Agency Award (Local Agency)
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CDFA Distinguished Development Finance Agency Award (Local Agency) is presented to an outstanding local development finance agency. This honor is bestowed on a local agency that has tackled particularly complex and challenging financing concerns, revolutionized financing tools or affected the development finance markets in the past two years. In order to be eligible, the local agency must have achieved recent success in the way development finance programs are operated, managed and administered. The goal of granting the award is to make the excellent work done by local development finance agencies in our industry more widely known and to recognize the impact that these groups have on our national economy.
CDFA Distinguished Leadership Award
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CDFA Distinguished Leadership Award is presented to an individual or development finance agency that has made an outstanding contribution to the development finance industry within the past two years. The goal of the award is to make the success and achievements experienced by the individual or development finance agency more widely known in our industry. The award focuses on efforts to enhance investment, drive redevelopment, structure new programs, build inclusion and equity, and the pioneering of effective and successful development finance approaches that are transferable throughout the industry. To be eligible, candidates must have made lasting contributions that have had an impact on the way development finance programs are operated, managed, and administered.
For more information about the CDFA Excellence in Development Finance Awards,
contact CDFA.
Past Recipients
2019 CDFA Award Winners
2018 CDFA Award Winners
2017 CDFA Award Winners
2016 CDFA Award Winners
2015 CDFA Award Winners