Connecting Fort Worth’s under-financed people & communities with flexible, patient CDFI financing.
CDFI FRIENDLY Fort Worth Launches New 0% Interest Buy-Down Program to Support Small Business Growth
Starting April 10, 2025
CDFI Friendly Fort Worth has partnered with LiftFund to launch a 0% Interest Buy-Down Program, making financing more affordable and reducing barriers for small business owners.
The program is designed to empower Fort Worth’s entrepreneurial community by providing up to $100,000 in interest-free loans to eligible businesses, helping to drive growth and create jobs.
Interested in learning more about this great opportunity? Join us for an info session on the CDFI Friendly Fort Worth 0% Interest rate program on Zoom, Wednesday, May 28, from noon to 1 p.m. The program offers loans without interest rates to small business owners in Fort Worth, TX. Loan funds from $500 to $100,000 can be used for business growth and expansion, startup expenses, inventory, payroll, equipment and machinery, working capital for business-related expenses, and more. Click here to register now!
Fort Worth’s Communities of Color Deserve Better.
CDFIs (Community Development Financial Institutions) provide customized, patient financing and technical support to small business owners, affordable housing developers, nonprofits, consumers, and commercial real estate developers in historically under-financed communities. Until now, CDFIs were not focused on Fort Worth.
CDFI Friendly Fort Worth is working to bring at least $250 million in CDFI financing to our city over the next five years to finance minority and women business enterprises (MWBE), homeownership, affordable rental housing, consumers, developers, nonprofits, and more.
CDFI Friendly Fort Worth is community-centered and community-controlled.
More financing options help communities thrive.
Increasing CDFI financing in Fort Worth will create opportunities, inclusion, and wealth for historically under-financed entrepreneurs, homeowners, renters, businesses, developers, and contractors.
CDFI Friendly Fort Worth Team
CDFI Friendly Fort Worth is an independent, not-for-profit organization that exists solely to match CDFIs to financing needs in Fort Worth. Our organization is guided by a community-centered Board and led by Executive Director, Glenn Forbes.
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Introducing CDFI Friendly Fort Worth Event
On January 26, 2022, Mayor Mattie Parker and other City officials kicked off an initiative to increase financing for Fort Worth’s minority-owned businesses, affordable homeownership, rental housing, and commercial real estate.
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