Florida Community Loan Fund

Investing in a community development financial institution, like the Loan Fund, makes good business sense for Florida, your business and ours.

Florida businesses have a stake in the Loan Fund because we invest in and encourage economic growth in new and under-served market areas.

Rather than viewing Florida's disadvantaged communities as poor, the Loan Fund invests in low-income communities where conventional financing and lenders have not traditionally ventured to address real business and consumer market potential.

All of our economic development loans are made to projects in disadvantaged communities throughout Florida where expansion of small business and existing business development opportunities make sound market sense.

The Loan Fund does this by taking a disciplined business-like approach to its underwriting, and lending where economic development loans make practical strong business sense and the highest social impact.

That is why we encourage and invite socially responsible corporations both within and outside of Florida contribute or invest in the Loan Fund.

Contributions and investments made through corporate giving programs or by privately held companies help make such projects as:

Business incubators

Commercial strip center

revitalization

Mixed-use commercial and

residential developments

Micro-enterprise and

capitalization of small

business loan pools

… possible for emerging small business entrepreneurs in the very communities that need them most.

Business corporations investing in the Loan Fund can also take advantage of the Florida Community Development Tax Credits Program by:

Locating in one of

Florida's state-

designated Enterprise

Communities

Providing charitable or

investment support

to the Loan Fund

Contributing directly

to a local community

development project in

any Enterprise

Community.

Tax credits may also be available through the New Markets Tax Credit Program of the U.S. Department of Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Initiative.

For more information on any of these tax credit programs or on how to contribute or invest in the Loan Fund, contact the Loan Fund's Development Officer.

We are pleased to partner with the Florida Community Loan Fund as you work to make a difference in our community...

PNC Foundation,
April 2010