NCCLF is excited to announce two significant changes to our lending program. In May of this year, the NCCLF Board of Directors approved doubling our maximum loan size from $1 million to $2 million, and increasing our maximum loan term to ten years. In increasing our maximum loan size, NCCLF is responding to a demonstrated [...]

On May 19th, the Green Room at the San Francisco War Memorial was filled with over 250 people, all gathered to hear the perspective of NCCLF’s 7th Annual Event speaker, Amy Domini. Founder and CEO of Domini Social Investments and a “Responsibility Pioneer”, Amy responded to a set of interesting questions posed by KQED 88.5 [...]

  Established in 1979, Housing California (HCA) is our state’s leading advocacy and research group for affordable housing. HCA’s mission is to increase the supply of decent, safe, accessible, and permanently affordable homes for homeless and low-income Californians. Headquartered in Sacramento, HCA also hosts the nation’s largest affordable housing conference. Historically, nearly two-thirds of HCA’s [...]

NCCLF is pleased to be providing technical assistance to organizations seeking loans from the Central Market Cultural District Loan Fund. The Loan Fund is part of a multi-agency effort lead by Mayor Gavin Newsom’s Office of Economic and Workforce Development to revitalize the arts and culture district in the Central Market and Tenderloin areas of [...]

If it were an independent country, the state of California would have the 7th highest GDP in the world. Nevertheless, many of our senior citizens are poor. Over one-third of Californians 65 years and older live below 200% of the federal poverty line. Moreover, the maximum income for seniors to qualify for federal government assistance [...]