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The Entrepreneur and the Community Lender

As a second follow-up to my original piece two weeks back on “Funding for the Rest of Us Entrepreneurs”, I would like to discuss a second area of alternative funding, that being the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). CDFIs provide financial products and services to people and communities underserved by traditional financial institutions. They normally work in low wealth areas and can take many forms (ex. banks, credit unions, micro-lenders, etc.).

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