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CONNECT+ Webinar: Designing Loan Products that Advance Racial Justice 

04-17-2023 02:02 PM

This April 2023 webinar dives deeper into the leading practices highlighted in our Operationalizing Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (REIA) into Lending Practices toolkit.

CDFIs continue to move capital where traditional markets will not go. Nonetheless, the journey towards racial and economic justice remains incomplete. It is crucial to scrutinize our industry's policies and procedures to identify any unintended ways they may contribute to systemic racism. We need to ensure that our policies, processes, and products do not recreate or perpetuate the very barriers that we are striving to dismantle.

During the webinar, you’ll hear insights and lessons learned from three CDFIs who share how they’ve examined their lending policies and processes to rework their definitions of creditworthiness and design loan products that advance racial justice. The webinar also covers how to develop and utilize racial equity impact assessment tools, ways that CDFIs have centered community voices in their work, and more.


Before you view the webinar, download the Operationalizing REIA into Lending Practices toolkit from our CDFI Connect resource library for free! It includes: 

  • - Tools for analyzing and shifting power. ​​​
  • - Suggested actions individuals and institutions can take to counteract systemic inequities. 
  • - Leading practices and case studies from CDFIs on how to move capital to achieve greater racial justice and equality. ​​​​​​
  • - Guidance on how to operationalize accessibility into CDFI lending practices.


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