[CircleUp] Use Your Voice to Further the Native CDFI Movement!

[Heidi Davis]

Don't let this opportunity pass you by. Submit your comments to inform
future policy regarding the CDFI Fund's Native Initiatives. 

 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Treasury is inviting comments from the
public on issues regarding the Community Development Financial
Institutions (CDFI) Fund, including the CDFI financial and technical
assistance awards, the Native Initiatives, and the Bank Enterprise
Awards (BEA). In particular, the CDFI Fund is interested in comments
from the public related to an array of statutory requirements, in the
interest of determining whether the CDFI Fund should seek technical
corrections or substantive revisions to the authorizing statute. All
materials submitted will be available for public inspection and copying.

 

DATES: All comments and submissions must be received by May 7, 2010.

 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent by mail to: Scott Berman, Acting
Chief Operating Officer, CDFI Fund, U.S. Department of the Treasury, 601
13th Street, NW., Suite 200 South, Washington, DC 20005; by e-mail to
cdfihelp at cdfi.treas.gov; or by facsimile at (202) 622-7754. Please note
this is not a toll free number.

 

NATIVE INITIATIVES: The CDFI Fund welcomes comments on issues relating
to the Native Initiatives, particularly with respect to the following
questions:

(a) Should the CDFI Fund seek statutory authority to make the NACA
awards permanent?

(b) What other services should the CDFI Fund provide to Native
Communities?

(c) What improvements could be made to Native Initiatives and, in
particular, to NACA awards?

(d) Should there be a limit on the number of technical assistance grants
an applicant can receive?

(e) Should the CDFI Fund provide ''seed funding'' financial assistance
grants to non-certified, emerging Native CDFIs for the purpose of
increasing lending in Native Communities?

(f) Many Native CDFIs have grown and expanded their reach in recent
years. Is there a point where a Native CDFI should be seen as having
''graduated'' from NACA financial assistance and be required to compete
for a CDFI financial and technical assistance award? Is so, what should
be the criteria?

 

Download the complete Request for Public Comment on Our Native Circle at
http://www.ournativecircle.org/node/1429. 

 

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Heidi Davis

Development & Communications Manager

Oweesta

910 5th Street, Suite 101

Rapid City, SD  57701

{t} 605.342.3770

{f} 605.342.3771

www.oweesta.org

www.ournativecircle.org

 

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