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Community First Fund receives $40M New Market Tax Credit allocation
Lancaster-based Community First Fund, which recently helped use New Market Tax Credits to fund the revitalization of a 17.5-acre manufacturing campus in Allentown for Marcon Properties has announced it has received more funding to continue its work.
Community First Fund, O’Pake Institute partner on Berks microloans
With one of its offices sharing a building on the Alvernia University campus in Reading, Lancaster-based Community First Fund and the O’Pake Institute have had a long history of collaboration.
Special financing package helps manufacturer redevelop blighted site
Community First Fund, a regional community development financial institution, has helped a Lehigh Valley manufacturer purchase new manufacturing and warehouse space at a brownfields site in Allentown using New Market Tax Credits.
Reading florist receives SBA woman-owned small business award
The owner of the first Latina-owned florist shop in Reading has received the Eastern Pennsylvania Woman-Owned Small Business of the Year Award for 2024.
Blighted Allentown industrial site to receive $49 million revitalization
A blighted 17.5-acre manufacturing campus overlooking Fountian Park in Allentown is getting revitalized with the help of an $8 million investment from Lancaster-based Community First Fund.
Community First Fund receives $2.25 million grant to launch EJFund
Truist Foundation Friday announced a $2.25 million grant to Community First Fund to help launch its Economic Justice Fund (EJFund).
Community First Fund officially opens credit union
Community First Fund, an independent nonprofit community loan fund, hosted an official grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday for the first branch of its Community First Fund Federal Credit Union.
Community First Fund gets $3M grant to help small business recovery
Wells Fargo has selected Lancaster-based Community First Fund to receive a $3 million grant as part of its Open for Business Fund, a nationwide small business recovery effort.
Community First to use $10M gift to open credit union
Community First Fund plans to open a credit union in Lancaster County this summer for those underserved by other lending institutions.
Lancaster’s Community First Fund forms $101M merger with Philly-based peer
Combined assets between the two community development financial institutions, which will be organized as a single entity under the name Community First Fund, will total $101 million, and $129 million by 2024, Community First Fund officials said in a Tuesday announcement.
Community First Fund expanding executive team
Expecting a record year for lending and more growth, the Lancaster-based Community First Fund has been adding staff and restructuring its executive team.
