Self-Help Federal Credit Union

Self-Help Federal Credit Union, doing business as Self-Help, is a corporate entity and tax exempt other not for profit organization that serves as a community development financial institution. Through its designation as a CDFI, Self-Help provides financial products, services, development services, loan loss reserves, and capital reserves to benefit low-income individuals and communities lacking adequate financial services.

Past prime federal grants awards to Self-Help include project grants from the Department of Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund across programs including the CDFI Equitable Recovery Program, the CDFI Rapid Response Program, the CDFI Program, and the Healthy Foods Financing Initiative. Across these awards spanning 2008 to 2023, Self-Help has received over $10 million in project grant funding to expand lending, build organizational capacity, acquire necessary technology and staff, and deliver financing products and services to underserved markets and populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 and other economic crises. As a CDFI, Self-Help is positioned to utilize these federal grants to address capital and banking service gaps, revitalize economies, and promote community development for low- and moderate-income communities and borrowers with unmet needs. No sub-recipient activities are indicated across Self-Help's grant award history.