As part of the Social Investment Forum Foundation and Green America's program to increase the
information available to investors on community investing, they contracted with Calvert Foundation
and the CDFI Data Project to develop this database of community investment institutions. The result
is a searchable database of more than 400 Community Investment Institutions (CIIs) that provide
financial products and services to people and communities underserved by traditional financial
markets.
Data
The Community Investment Database provides a basic overview
and key statistics on the CIIs in the dataset. If you are interested in further information on the
institutions, please visit their website or contact them directly. The information in this database
is not a substitute for due diligence on an institution.
If you are a representative of
one of the CIIs in this database, and want to make a change to the information presented, have
changes to make to the record of one of the CIIs in the database, please contact the Calvert
Foundation at
foundation@calvert.com.
About the Organizations
Social Investment Forum Foundation: The Social
Investment Forum Foundation is a national, nonprofit organization providing research and
educational programs on socially responsible investing, with an active Community Investing Program.
The Foundation is affiliated with the Social Investment Forum (SIF), the national, nonprofit trade
association for socially responsible investment professionals. CIIs interested in becoming a part
of the database should consider joining SIF, as the organization works to ensure its members are
included and promoted in the Community Investment Database. For more information,
click here.
Green America: Green America is the leading national non-profit provider of consumer,
business and investor tools that put economic power to work for social change. We harness the power
of consumers and investors though marketplace strategies to address today's most pressing social
and environmental issues. To learn more about Green America and our many programs, please visit
www.greenamericatoday.org.
Calvert
Foundation: Calvert Foundation is a professionally managed facility through which individuals
and institutions can conveniently invest in low-income communities. Investors benefit from
portfolio diversification, security enhancements, rigorous due diligence, ongoing monitoring of
investments, and knowing every dollar invested goes into local enterprises that support low-income
housing, nonprofit facilities, microfinance and other social enterprises. Calvert Foundation
currently administers assets of more than $160 million from 4,000 individual and institutional
sources, and its portfolio consists of investments in over 200 community development and social
enterprises globally. For more information, visit
www.calvertfoundation.org.
CDFI Data
Project (CDP): The CDP is a collaboration of eight leading trade associations and
intermediaries that work with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and CDFI
investors to ensure access to and use of data to improve practice and attract resources to the CDFI
field. The CDP publishes an annual publication on the CDFI industry, makes available the full CDP
dataset for purchase, and provides data analysis on the industry. The CDP partners provide a
variety of services to CDFIs and CDFI investors, including financing to CDFIs, asset management and
due diligence services for investors, consulting and training for CDFIs and CDFI investors, and
advocacy on behalf of the industry. For more information,
view the CDP brochure (PDF format).
The CDP partners include:
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
www.microenterpriseworks.org
Aspen Institute
www.fieldus.org
CDFI Coalition
www.cdfi.org
Community Development Venture Capital Alliance
www.cdvca.org
Corporation for Enterprise Development
National Community Investment Fund www.ncif.org
National Federation of Community Development
Credit Unions
www.cdcu.coop