CDFI Friendly Evansville Region is an emerging strategy to connect businesses, housing developers, community organizations, and others in the region with access to CDFI financing.
The board of directors of CDFI Friendly Evansville Region (CFER) is pleased to announce the hiring of its founding Executive Director, Taylor Price.
Price, an Evansville, Indiana, native and University of Southern Indiana graduate, comes to CFER with more than 11 years of experience in the banking and mortgage lending industry, as well as experience working with and helping lead various Evansville
nonprofit organizations. Price is bilingual (English/Spanish) and is dedicated to community development.
In her role as Executive Director, Price will coordinate CFER’s work with investors, funders, local government, and others, while tracking CDFI priorities, promoting the CFER Evansville Region, and actively seeking financing partners. Her collaboration with existing related community development initiatives and programs will promote CFER’s services and goals through advocacy and advancement of its offerings in the Evansville
Region. Price will target outreach to and funding for historically excluded populations. CFER estimates that this program could produce more than $100 million in new CDFI financing for underserved communities and protected classes in the region by year-end 2028.
CDFI Friendly Evansville Region is an emerging strategy to connect businesses, housing developers, community organizations, and others in the region with access to CDFI financing. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are private financial institutions that exist to meet community financing needs for under-financed people and communities just outside the margins of conventional finance. CFER is thrilled to welcome Taylor Price as our founding leader as we work to fill financing gaps in Evansville and surrounding communities.