Community Development Financial Institution

What it means to be a Community Development Financial Institution:

• Community Development Financial Institutions – or CDFIs – are mission-driven
  financial institutions that are dedicated to providing financial services to meet the needs
  of economically disadvantaged individuals within underserved communities.
• CDFIs invest in local communities and the residents who live there by providing critically
  needed financing often unavailable from mainstream financial institutions.
• CDFIs are certified by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development
  Financial Institutions Fund – known as the CDFI Fund. In order to become a certified
  CDFI, the financial institution must: have a primary mission of promoting community
  development; provide financial products and services; serve one or more defined low income
  target markets; maintain accountability to the community it serves; and be a legal
  non-governmental entity.
• All CDFIs share a common mission of serving low-income communities. CDFIs are
  commonly loan funds, credit unions, community banks, or venture capital funds.
• Certified CDFIs are part of a national network promoting economic growth in
  America’s underserved communities by financing businesses, creating jobs, and
  rebuilding neighborhoods.
• As a CDFI, Buckeye State Credit Union puts the community first and
  values local, economic growth.
• Here in our communities, Buckeye State Credit Union provides
  individuals and businesses with financial services to promote local growth and
  economic development.
• As a CDFI, Buckeye State Credit Union is dedicated to serving the
  residents and businesses of our communities that historically lack access to financial services
  to encourage our community to participate in the mainstream economy.

Buckeye State Credit Union should be your number one choice for community development financial institution.