The final installment of this series dives into the technical details of Vermont’s new Community and Housing Infrastructure Program (CHIP). Participants explore the framework, eligibility criteria, and procedural steps that shape the program....

The 2025 Caren S. Franzini Fellowship class prepared a white paper summarizing their research examining the potential of blended capital to finance the revitalization of commercial corrdirors in underserved neighborhoods. This paper presents...

The following energy lending guidance and tools were developed for the HPN CDFI Readiness Cohort, which helped eight Community Development Finance Institutions create strategies to launch and expand clean energy business lending programs by...

The CDFA has announced its support for federal legislation to create a temporary federal tax credit that would encourage the conversion of vacant and under-utilized commercial properties into residential housing. The bipartisan bill (H.R. 9002/S....

Throughout the U.S., individual states offer unique tax credits and negotiated incentives to attract or retain business operations. Currently, there are more than 2,400 state and local incentive programs available. There are a variety of ways these...

ARC’s Area Development program relies on a flexible “bottom-up” approach to economic development, empowering Appalachian communities to work with their state governments to design impactful investment opportunities supporting their mission and...

The BEA Program awards FDIC-insured depository institutions for increasing their support of CDFIs and advancing their community development activities in the most distressed communities.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) makes federal funds available through the new Building Resilient Infrastructures and Communities (BRIC) grant program to states, local communities, tribes and territories for pre-disaster mitigation...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance (part of DoJ's Office of Justice Programs) supports law enforcement, courts, corrections, treatment, victim services, technology, and prevention initiatives that strengthen the nation's criminal justice system.

The mission of the DOJ's Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) is to collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government.

As a means to develop or redevelop areas identified by the port authority board of commissioners, this program establishes the Port Authority AIM Zone Fund consisting of 50% of the state withholding tax from new jobs within the zone after...

The New York State Affordable Housing Corporation (AHC) administers the Affordable Home Ownership Development Program (AHOD Program) which provides grants to governmental, not-for-profit and charitable groups to build, acquire/rehabilitate or...