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