Today, the Native CDFI Network (NCN) and 68 Native CDFI and other partner organizations submitted a joint request letter to the U.S. Senate and House Appropriations Committees requesting a $50 million appropriation for the CDFI Fund’s Native American CDFI Assistance (NACA) Program for FY 2025. The letter requested this funding amount for FY 2025 based on the considerable unmet capital needs of Native CDFIs, the significant return on investment that dollars provided to Native CDFIs produces in terms of economic benefits, and the growth in the number of Native CDFIs across the country.
To read the letter, please click here.
Template Request Letter for Individual Native CDFIs and Other Partners to Use:
NCN strongly encourages Native CDFIs and its other partners to submit individual requests to Congress requesting the $50 million funding amount for the NACA Program for FY 2025. To support you in that process, NCN has created a template letter that you can modify to explain the importance of NACA Program funding to your organization.
To access the template letter, please click here.
To find contact info to send your letter to your state’s Congressional delegation, please see below:
U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators
U.S. House of Representatives: Find Your Representative (locate by ZIP code)
U.S. House of Representatives: Directory by State, District, Last Name