2025 Awardees

Congratulations to the 2025 Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund Awardees!

October 3, 2025 News Release

The successful applicants and amount they have been awarded is listed below:

  • Bronze Valley, $670,000
  • Community Bank Delaware, $215,000
  • NeighborGood Partners, $250,000
  • Pursuit Community Finance, $536,000
  • REDF Impact Investing Fund, $670,000
  • Stepping Stones Federal Credit Union, $469,000
  • True Access Capital, $670,000

The Delaware Community Investment Venture Fund (DCIVF), which is administered by the Delaware Council on Banking, provides funding opportunities for banking organizations, credit unions, and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) doing business in Delaware to better serve the needs of low- to moderate-income census tracts within the state.

Banks, credit unions, and CDFIs properly registered and authorized to conduct business in the State of Delaware may apply for one or more grants to support proposed programs that:

  1. invest in the development of financial product or financial product underwriting innovations that will enhance access to capital, funding, and other financial services for businesses in low- to moderate-income tracts in Delaware;
  2. deploy, test, and evaluate these innovations for providing capital and funding to businesses in low- to moderate-income tracts in Delaware; and
  3. promote and make these innovations available to a variety of banking organizations, CDFIs, and credit unions for use in enhancing access to capital, funding, and other financial services for businesses in low- to moderate-income tracts in Delaware.

The DCIVF application period closed on June 16, 2025. If you have any questions, please email DCIVF@delaware.gov.

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For information contact DCIVF@delaware.gov or (302) 739-4235.