Capital Impact Partners Mission-Driven Financing and Capacity Programs
A CDFI providing flexible, affordable capital to nonprofits and community organizations alongside a set of named capacity-building programmes — among them Co-op Innovation Awards, the Housing Accelerator Fellowship, Equitable Development Initiative training for community-rooted developers, and the Nourish DC food-access collaborative. The fellowship and award programmes are the research-relevant openings: they fund structured learning and model development, not only bricks and mortar.
- Indicative award
- Amount not published (varies by call)No loan amounts or award figures are published on the pages checked; the funder directs enquirers to its loan-products and contact pages for terms.
- Timing
- Varies by programmeNo specific published date recorded. This funder publishes a cycle rather than a date, and this database does not invent one.Lending is rolling; the named capacity programmes (Co-op Innovation Awards, Housing Accelerator Fellowship, Growing Housing Developers, Nourish DC) run their own cycles with dates published on each programme page rather than centrally.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Serves nonprofits, entrepreneurs and other mission-driven organizations, with geography as the explicit gate — the funder lists California, Georgia, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Texas and Virginia. Specific loan amounts, detailed eligibility criteria and application procedures are not stated on the pages checked; the site routes applicants to its loan-products and contact pages. Individual capacity programmes carry their own eligibility rules that must be checked programme by programme. For lending, a university is not the intended borrower — the community development organi
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community development finance · cooperative development · housing · food access · developer training
- Apply at
- https://www.capitalimpact.org/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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