CBA Fund, CBA’s CDFI Intermediary, is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) intermediary dedicated to catalyzing and growing the capacity of nonprofit lenders to offer small dollar, credit building consumer loans. Many community-based organizations see a need for safe and affordable small dollar consumer loans in their communities but do not have the resources to implement a solution. CBA Fund’s mission is to expand the capacity of nonprofit lenders, like The Fountain Fund, to provide safe and affordable small dollar consumer loans (SDLs) and credit building products to low- and moderate-income individuals.

“CBA Fund allowed us to enlarge our mission and serve new markets…without it, these critical programs wouldn’t exist.”
– Meagan Jordan, Economic Opportunity Facilitator, New Orleans, at The Fountain Fund

Our CEO, Dara Duguay, contributed an opinion piece to The Hill on rent reporting as a sound credit building strategy:

“At CBA, we believe that rent reporting is just one step renters can take to start building their credit and should be paired with financial wellness programming for maximum impact.”