The Loan Fund creates economic opportunities in Florida low-income communities by financing community projects that create jobs, small businesses, job training and business incubating services.
Our loans that finance the construction or renovation of single and multi-family affordable housing units also contribute to strengthening local economies by not only creating jobs in the process but increasing the affordable housing stock in a community for the poor and working poor.
Our community facility loans, particularly those to childcare organizations, also provide economic benefits for poor and working poor parents who might not otherwise be able to seek and keep a job without childcare.
The Florida Community Loan Fund appealed to us because it is statewide and flexible, with activity in both housing and economic development...
Carlos Noble,Sr. Vice President, Northern Trust, January 28, 2000
, South Florida Business Journal.