When people have access to the opportunities provided by living in healthy communities, they can break the barriers to success. As a mission-driven nonprofit lender, we work to achieve this vision by creatively delivering needed capital to the projects that support healthy communities, including health and education facilities, healthy food centers, job training programs, mixed-use and affordable housing and economic development. We realize the importance of fostering deep connections with communities to understand their needs and work with them to achieve their goals. 

We initially focused our community development lending on three Priority Cities – places where we have roots and relationships and can leverage our work, past investments and relationships, and marketing knowledge to maximize our impact. We’ve also implemented a longer term goal to expand our program to Cinnaire’s larger footprint across the Midwest and MidAtlantic. Detroit, Michigan; La Crosse, Wisconsin; and Wilmington, Delaware are the initial Priority Cities where Cinnaire is digging deep to provide support services to local developers and nonprofits, especially those owned by People of Color, to bring community development real estate projects to fruition. We work in partnership with other CDFIs in these cities to increase the flow of accessible capital and capacity.