FUND Community Institute (FUND CI) is conducting a study to better understand small business CDFIs’ technical assistance approaches, including how they identify needed interventions; what can be learned from those CDFIs that provide a high proportion of loans to women; and how approaches may be tailored to clients who are women. FUND CI anticipates this work will provide an evaluation of technical assistance programming and its outcomes in new ways, adding to the industry’s knowledge of the current state of its technical assistance and surfacing best practices.

The project focuses on small business lending and small business technical assistance and we encourage CDFIs that provide small business lending to participate. We also welcome CDFIs that offer other lending products to participate, though our findings will primarily focus on small business lending and technical assistance.

Responses from this survey will remain anonymous. Results from this project will be incorporated into the final report to be distributed publicly for the benefit of the CDFI industry. We anticipate this survey will take 15 minutes to complete.

If you have any questions, please reach out to Emily Sipfle at esipfle@fundci.org. FUND Community Institute is a nonprofit think tank conducting independent studies, partner projects and commissioned research designed to encourage dialogue, share best practices and promote innovation. Learn more about our past work at www.fundci.org.

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