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CDFI Fund Program Application Process - RCAC Comments

Review RCAC's comments on the application process for the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund Program.

In response to the following questions:

1. Is targeting CDFI Program award funds into highly distressed communities an appropriate use of CDFI Program Funds?
2. Are there ways that the fillable PDF application form can be improved that would ease applicant paperwork burden?
3. Should detailed Matching Funds documentation be collected later in the application review process and, if so, what would be a reasonable amount of time to expect an applicant to provide such documentation?
4. Does the application ask the appropriate questions to determine the applicant's financial health and viability?

Republicans win the U.S. House

In the November election, Republicans gained 60 seats; two thirds came from the nation's 125 most rural dictricts. Read more about the results, possible reasons why the shift and public comments at Daily Yonder in an article authored by Bill Bishop and Julie Ardery >> 

Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities

RCAC provided comments regarding HUD's creation of the Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities, click the link below to view our comments.

• RCAC's Office of Sustainable Housing and Communities Comments

Friends Committee on National Legislation

Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL) highlighted three major funding needs in a memo delivered this week to key appropriators in the House and Senate. The three concerns were school construction and maintenance, health care, and the Indian Child Welfare Act. In these three areas the needs of Indian Country have been historically underfunded. The president proposed increased funding for Indian health care, but given the need, even that proposal seems too small. FCNL urged the appropriators to support funding at least at the president's proposed levels, and strongly encouraged them to find additional funding to meet the critical levels of need.

In order to make their voice heard, FCNL wrote a letter to members of the Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies in both houses, and attached our budget summary.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Find out if your Congress members are on the Senate or House Appropriations Committee's Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies. You can do this on our website:

• Go to "Contact Congress" on the left hand side of FCNL's homepage at www.fcnl.org.
• Enter your zip code. Click on your representative and senators, and look at their committees.
• Does Appropriations show up? If so, click on "Subcommittees" and then "Interior, Environment and Related."