This 2025 calendar illustrates month-by-month the accomplishments you helped us achieve in 2024.
A note from our executive director...
Dear Friends,
Part of what makes the Center for Rural Affairs an effective organization is our constantly evolving work. For instance, after decades as a small business lender, we saw a need for more diverse capital solutions, and in 2020 made a decision to expand our lending.
We’ve since added loans for single-family homes, multifamily housing development, and small meat processors. These new areas of lending help keep communities vibrant and improve quality of life.
The response has been strong. This year, we crossed the $40 million mark in community-based lending since making our first small business loan in the early 1990s. More than $11 million of that came in the last year alone. In 2025, we will roll out low-income solar and other climate-related lending, and also expand our food systems lending.
Our evolving approach to lending, alongside our policy change and community development work, will lead to greater impact for you and your community. Thank you for your support. It makes this work possible.
Brian Depew
Executive Director
