Today the Fund is recognized as a national leader among community development financial institutions. The Fund accomplishes this through its financial support of affordable housing developments, community facilities, small businesses, and workforce programs. The Fund is a principal sponsor of the Jobs Policy Network, a new civic effort to improve the region's workforce. Our investors, borrowers, and partners form a network of hope and commitment. And the best is yet to come.
Capital is scarce in the Delta . . .
Bynum is talking hard facts, but he isn't just wringing his hands. He's searching full-time for more sources of investment capital to deploy across a region whose human as well as economic potential, he believes, has been greatly undervalued. ECD fulfills its mission by providing financial and technical assistance to companies and entrepreneurs in the region, and forging strategic partnerships with private, public and non-profit sector organizations committed to developing the region's human and economic assets. ECD clearly faces a major challenge. The Delta's 1990 Census numbers tell part of the story.