CDE: Self-Help

To all NMTC Coalition Members: If you would like to add projects, a description of your CDE, or anything else to this page, contact Paul Anderson.

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Project Profiles and Stories

Esperanza Chicago II

Chicago,
IL
(2023)

FQHCs

CDE(s): Chicago Development Fund, PNC, SCORE, Self-Help

The construction of a 44,000 sq. ft. health and wellness center for Esperanza Health Centers, a Federally Qualified Health Center focused on improving health care access on Chicago’s Southwest side

College of the Desert Indio Education Campus Expansion

Indio,
CA
(2024)

Makerspace

CDE(s): Border Communities Capital Company, California Statewide Communities Development Corporation, Clearinghouse CDFI, Prestamos CDFI, Self-Help, TELACU, USBCDE

NMTC financed project expands training and education for 10,000 students

East Side Food Co-Op

Minneapolis,
MN
(2015)

Grocery and Fresh Food, Retail, Retail and Commercial

CDE(s): Self-Help

The NMTC helped a food co-op expand and provide greater access to healthy food in a USDA food desert.

Coyaba Dance Theater

Washington,
DC
(2013)

Community, Theaters and Performing Arts Spaces

CDE(s): Self-Help

Major renovations and expansion of a theater building for a dance company.

Selma Solar

Selma,
NC
(2014)

Energy, Solar

CDE(s): Self-Help

Financing for the development and management of a 2.3 MW solar farm located in Selma, North Carolina.

FLS Energy

Ellenboro,
NC
(2014)

Solar

CDE(s): Self-Help

FLS Energy constructed 38 megawatts of utility-scale solar farms near Hendersonville, in Rutherford County and at six other sites in North Carolina. Across the state, the array of solar panels

Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science

Bronx,
NY
(2023)

Schools

CDE(s): Chase, NYC Neighborhood Capital Corporation, NYCR-CDE, Self-Help, The Community Builders

Urban Assembly Charter School for Computer Science (“Comp Sci High”) is a single-site work-based learning, computer science focused non-profit Charter school in the South Bronx. Founded in 2018 with a

College of the Desert Indio

Makerspace

CDE(s): Border Communities Capital Company, California Statewide Communities Development Corporation, Clearinghouse CDFI, Prestamos CDFI, Self-Help, TELACU, USBCDE

NMTC financed project expands training and education for 10,000 students

Urban Assembly High School

Schools

CDE(s): NYC Neighborhood Capital Corporation, NYCR-CDE, Self-Help, The Community Builders

New School Building Financed with NMTC Brings High-Quality Technical Education to Students in the South Bronx

362 Depot Street

Asheville,
NC
(2009)

Mixed-use, Retail

CDE(s): Self-Help

Arts nonprofit uses NMTC for owned/managed office and retail space.

Valor College Prep

Nashville,
TN
(2017)

Schools

CDE(s): Self-Help

Construction of the new high school facility will create 750 new student seats in the South Nashville.

Frogs Leap Public House

Waynesville,
NC
(2010)

Retail

CDE(s): Self-Help

The inside of Waynesville’s 44 Church Street does not, today, bustle with life, warmth and the scintillating scent of food wafting through the air, as it once did. The former

Raleigh Times Building

Raleigh,
NC
(2010)

Retail

CDE(s): Self-Help

One of Raleigh’s most important buildings in the first part of the 1900s, this building housed the Evening Times, which later became the Raleigh Times newspaper. The Times building possesses

KIPP Gaston College Prep

Gaston,
NC
(2013)

Community, FQHCs, Schools

CDE(s): Self-Help

KIPP Gaston College Preparatory Public School opened in 2001 and serves 1,043 students in Grades K-1, 5-12 in rural Northhampton County. Gaston Prep provides transportation and lunch to its mostly

87 Depot Street Revival

Asheville,
(2011)

Housing, Mixed-use

CDE(s): Self-Help

Restoration of a vacant historic building.

The Rhodes School

Houston,
(2009)

Community, Public School, Schools, Youth and Families

CDE(s): Self-Help

Self-Help provided NMTC financing for the Rhodes School, which expanded parents' educational choices in the North Channel area

Sarah Brennan

CDE(s): Self-Help

Sarah Brennan is structured finance sector leader at Self-Help Ventures Fund. Self-Help is a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) whose mission is to create and protect ownership and economic