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Advocacy Day and Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025 Peer Forum Conference: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025 and Thursday, June 5th, 2025 Meeting Location: National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium at: 1201 15th St NW, 1st floor, Washington, DC 20005 Attire: Business casual for all Peer Forum activities
Hotel Information: The National Housing Center is located in downtown, Washington D.C., within walking distance of a variety of hotels offering rooms at a wide range of price points. We invite you to explore some of the options in our “Hotel Options List.” Please note that CDBA has not arranged a room block at any individual hotels for this event.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding Advocacy Day, please email Joey Zeldin at zeldinj@pcgloanfund.org.
Schedule:
June 3: Advocacy Day & Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception at 5:30 pm ET
June 4: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET
Cocktail reception at 6:00 pm ET followed by dinner at 7:30 pm ET at Zaytinya
National Community Investment Fund (NCIF; www.ncif.org) is an impact investor and national nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) formed in 1996 with a mission to increase access to responsible financial products and services in underserved communities. As of December 31, 2023, total assets under management at NCIF are $228.8MM, including balance sheet assets of $61.9MM and $166.9MM of active New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC) investments. NCIF’s Theory of Change revolves around catalyzing impact in partnership with mission-oriented financial institutions (MOFIs: CDFI Banks, Minority Depository Institutions and other institutions with an impact mission) that often act as anchors in underserved markets. It achieves its mission via four complementary business lines:
Equity Investing in Mission Oriented Financial Institutions (MOFI): We support and strengthen MOFIs by investing equity and subordinated debt and placing deposits with them as needed. NCIF is the largest single investor in CDFI banks, with investments in 18 MOFIs and one mission-focused fintech company.
New Markets Tax Credits: We have received $401MM in NMTC allocations and continue to deploy these resources into real estate, operating companies, health care facilities, schools, and other nonprofit and for-profit impact-oriented businesses, often collaborating with MOFIs to identify and co-invest in businesses in their communities.
Lending: In 2019, NCIF launched a $50MM Credit Strategies Fund (CSF). NCIF uses CSF and other capital to make/purchase loans from MOFIs to finance commercial real estate projects that provide positive impacts in underserved communities. To date, NCIF has provided loans to 15 development projects. NCIF is a founding member of the Expanding Black Business Credit Initiative that will increase lending to African American businesses nationally.
Impact measurement is the foundation of NCIF’s work and supports all our business lines. NCIF pioneered the use of Social Performance Metrics (www.bankimpact.org) and is developing a cloud-based core data platform to support data analytics.
