Apply to CRC's Resilience Fund

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Organizational Information

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Qualifying questions

Is this request for a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization?

Yes

Are you based in California and do you serve California residents?

Yes

Does your organization support BIPOC-owned small businesses or affordable housing production, or preservation?

Yes

Are you planning to become a Certified Financial Development Institution (CDFI) or have you received CDFI certification within the last two years?

Yes

*If you answered NO to any of the questions above, you should stop here. Your organization will not meet the basic eligibility requirements under this program.

For each of the questions below, the maximum length is up to 3,000 characters per question. If you are invited to the second round of the application, you will be asked to provide more information.

Provide a brief description of your organization’s history, mission and impact.

Describe how being part of the Resilience Fund Cohort will support your current and/or future programs. What societal conditions are you working to change/address?

How did you determine that becoming a CDFI was a priority for your organization, and why is your organization positioned to do so?

Please describe the constituencies you will be impacting, including location.

If you already have a loan pool: describe the project/program’s history and past accomplishments. (Optional)

Please discuss how your organization advances equity and inclusion. For example, does your organization have any DEI or racial justice goals, priorities, initiatives and policies?

Is there any other information not captured elsewhere regarding your organization or anything else that you believe will help in our evaluation of your request? (Optional)

LEADERSHIP IDENTITIES: Organizations with leadership and staff who reflect the communities they serve and that have lived experience from BIPOC communities are particularly encouraged to apply. Please share with us some information about your organization's leadership. We have listed some demographic identities for your use in telling us about how your executive team and board of directors / advisory board identify. If you prefer to share qualitative insights, we also invite you to tell us about the ways in which members of your organization self-identify in the narrative question section at the end.

Number of Executive Team Members:

Race & Ethnicity-Identities: Do any members of your leadership team publicly self-identify as (select all that apply):

Asian/Asian Americans

Black/African American/African

Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx

Native American or Alaska Native, and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment

Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islanders

White/Caucasian

Multi-racial

Prefer Not to Answer

Prefer to Self-Describe (field provided below)

Are any executives on your team 1st or 2nd generation immigrants to the US? (Select all that apply for each team member) (Optional)

First generation

Second generation

Other relevant lived experience with immigration or forced migration

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Do any of your executive team members publicly self-identify as the following (select all that apply for each team member): (Optional)

Female

Male

Non-binary

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How many of your executive team members publicly self-identify as (select all that apply for each team member): (Optional)

Transgender (gender assigned at birth was not consistent with my gender identity)

Cisgender (gender assigned at birth was consistent with my gender identity)

Prefer Not to Answer

Prefer to Self-Describe (field provided below)

Use this field to share any additional qualitative insights into the background of your executive/s. For example, do any members of your executive team belong to the communities you serve or have significant experience with the issues you work on? (Optional)

Download a copy of this form. To submit your application in Spanish, download and fill out this form. Submit the completed form to jhoffman@calreinvest.org.

For additional questions, contact crc@calreinvest.org.