Carla's Blog / EBA Portland, LLC: Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI) -- Notice of Open Meeting

The United States Treasury's CDFI (Community Development Financial Institutions Fund) has provided me with a Notice of Open Meeting, and I thought to share.

What Is CDFI?-- under the United States Dept. of the Treasury, the CDFI provides funds, services, credit to under-served markets and populations.

"Broadly speaking, a CDFI is defined as a financial institution that: has a primary mission of community development, serves a target market, is a financing entity, also provides development services, remains accountable to its community, and is a non-government entity."  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDFI

Throughout the nation, CDFI has funded neighborhood banks and other projects.

A notable CDFI is located, right here, in Portland, OR: Albina Community Bank

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CDFI Fund's Advisory Board to Meet on November 16, 2009 in Washington, D.C

New Markets Tax Credit Program Includes $1.5 Billion Awarded Under the Recovery Act

November 2, 2009

The next meeting of the Community Development Advisory Board (the Advisory Board) will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Monday, November 16, 2009. The Advisory Board meeting will be held in the Cash Room at the U.S. Department of the Treasury located at 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20220.

The room will accommodate up to 50 members of the public. Seats are available to members of the public on a first-come, first-served basis. Since the meeting will be held in a secured federal building, members of the public who desire to attend the meeting must contact the CDFI Fund's Office of Legislative and External Affairs by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by e-mail at AdvisoryBoard@cdfi.treas.gov, to inform the CDFI Fund of your desire to attend the meeting and to provide the following information which is required to facilitate your entry to the facility: name as it appears on a government issued identification; date of birth; and social security number.

Please note that participation in the discussions at the meeting will be limited to Advisory Board members, Department of the Treasury staff, and certain invited guests. Anyone who would like to have the Advisory Board consider a written statement must submit it to the CDFI Fund's Office of Legislative and External Affairs by 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Wednesday, November 11, 2009 by mail to 601 Thirteenth Street, NW, Suite 200 South, Washington, DC, 20005, or by e-mail at AdvisoryBoard@cdfi.treas.gov.

The function of the Advisory Board is to advise the Director of the CDFI Fund on the policies regarding the activities of the Fund. The Advisory Board shall not advise the CDFI Fund on the granting or denial of any particular application for monetary or non-monetary awards.

Please review the following Notice for all relevant details: Federal Register Notice

Any questions can be directed to Bill Luecht in the Office of Legislative and External Affairs by calling (202) 622-8042 or via e-mail at luechtw@cdfi.treas.gov