A Message from NCN CEO Pete Upton in Response to New Federal Reserve Bank Report Detailing Banking Deserts’ Disproportionate Impact on Native Communities

The Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia released a comprehensive new report titled “U.S. Bank Branch Closures and Banking Deserts,” which finds that banking deserts – defined as neighborhoods with no bank branches nearby.

Native CDFI Network Signs on to Joint Letter Protecting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund from Congressional Attack

Today, the Native CDFI Network (NCN) signed on to a joint letter along with several hundred other stakeholder organizations from across the lender community calling on Congress to protect the EPA Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) from forthcoming legislation by House Republicans to gut the GGRF and divert its funding to subsidize fees charged on pollution generate by the oil and gas industry.