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The Board of Directors of the Hartford Community Loan Fund (HCLF) has announced the selection of the organization’s new Chief Executive Officer. Michael B. Haynes,

The founding CEO of Hartford Community Loan Fund (HCLF) has announced plans to leave the organization later in 2024, as soon as HCLF’s Board has identified the organization’s next CEO

HCLF’s CEO Rex Fowler recently sat down for an interview with the National Community Reinvestment Coalition to discuss the role banks can play in working more collaboratively with CDFIs to create a more equitable and inclusive platform for capital investments across the US.

We’re also proud of our borrowers like Jose Salazar who do such great work in tackling tough projects like 471 Garden Street read on.

That’s why we don’t rely on credit scores, especially for our black and brown applicants, who are unjustly ‘redlined’ by the current credit scoring system.  Read this article to learn more about why the current system penalizes many residents of color and how these residents typically pay more of their hard-earned income operating in the ‘unbanked’ system (sadly, as the map in the article shows:  of all states east of the Mississippi River, only Mississippi has a higher % of unbanked residents than Connecticut). Read on

The Jacobson Building, the mixed-use property in Hartford that HCLF owns and occupies.  We see our building as an extension of our mission – from how it’s been rehabbed from a formerly vacant, fire-damaged neighborhood eyesore to the incredible people who now live here and operate their businesses here.  Excited to receive a grant from the HartLift program launched by the City of Hartford and Hartford Chamber of Commerce – CT to help us complete the interior renovations on our property later this spring, with two new businesses moving into the Jacobson to serve our neighborhood.  Once the interior work is complete, we’ll dig up the asphalt in front of the business entries and install a beautiful landscaped plaza around our property read on.

HCLF has been one of several community organizations working with residents to create a development plan for the area around Main/Albany read on..

HCLF is proud of the great work our borrowers are doing to renovate historic properties in our communities.  Check out the recently renovated property now leasing in Hartford’s north end, completed by HCLF borrower Vincencia Adusei (read on), and a long-awaited project currently underway in New Britain, led by HCLF borrower Doug Bromfeld (read on).