CDFI Institute & New $27 Billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund 

CDVCA’s Kerwin Tesdell and Julian Wood attended the CDFI Institute, the annual conference of the CDFI Coalition, in Washington, DC on March 15 & 16, 2023. The Coalition is the advocacy organization for the CDFI industry, including community development venture capital funds. Participants attended panels featuring agency heads and congressional staffers discussing both the practical and the political sides of various government programs important to the CDVC industry. Kerwin moderated a panel on the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, recently created by the Inflation Reduction Act, which will provide $27 billion of grant funding for financing that reduces greenhouse gases, with…