GIIN Report on Scaling Community Development Investments

On October 19th 2015, The Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN), released a landscape study of the US Community Impact Investment field. Titled Scaling U.S. Community Investing: The Investor-Product Interface, the report provides insight into the barriers and opportunities to increasing investment.

In the United States, investments that seeks to generate financial returns while delivering social benefits marginalized communities while have existed for a decades. The investments are executed through a range of actors including loan funds, banks and credit unions, and other financial institutions. Over 900 such product providers are certified as Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) by the U.S. Treasury.

In spite of the wide range of actors involved, the USCI field has not yet managed to scale its potential. The .Scaling U.S. Community Investing report explores why, while providing helpful recommendations for how to engage investors and improving investment products.