Community First Fund Receives $2.25 Million Grant From Truist Foundation To Launch Fund Supporting Minority Small Business Owners

Truist Foundation recently announced a $2.25 million commitment to Community First Fund, a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to aligning capital with social justice. The grant will help launch Community First Fund’s Economic Justice Fund (EJFund) that will support lending activities to minority entrepreneurs, with an emphasis on Black and Latine small business owners, across Community First Fund’s service footprint in eastern and central Pennsylvania, including in the Greater Philadelphia region. Truist Chairman and CEO Bill Rogers and President of Truist Foundation Lynette Bell joined Community First Fund’s…

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