Cascadia Revolving Fund is a non-profit community development financial institution providing small business loans and technical assistance to entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations unable to access financing from traditional sources. We focus on building strong communities -- creating jobs and business ownership opportunities for people in need. Our success is measured by the people whose lives we have helped improve and the communities we have helped strengthen. We lend to businesses owned by low-income people, women, and minority entrepreneurs and to businesses that restore or preserve the environment, provide needed community services, are located in distressed rural or urban communities, or have strong potential to create family wage jobs.

Cascadia made its first loan in 1985. Since then, we’ve made more than 300 loans, disbursing nearly $14 million to small businesses in a variety of industries. These loans have helped create or preserve approximately 1,020 jobs, moving people out of poverty in Washington and Oregon. Through its Child Care Fund, Cascadia offers loans, business training and technical assistance to center-based and family child care providers. Since 1992, Cascadia has lent over $2 million to child care providers and has created and enhanced 835 child care spaces