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Afton Partners

Afton Partners specializes in financial planning, budgeting, finance capacity building, and sustainability strategies.

Baird

Baird’s National Charter School Finance team is dedicated to meeting the long term goals of charter school management organizations and stand-alone schools for the financing of facilities, primarily through both bond financings, bank loans, NMTC, and other financing structures.

Braintree Properties

Braintree Properties’ mission is to build school facilities that foster quality teaching and learning. Their educational spaces are built to each school’s specific needs with innovation in mind.

Building Hope

Building Hope is a nonprofit organization that works to close the educational achievement gap by giving students access to high-quality public charter school education and providing schools with business services and school facilities solutions.

Capital Impact Partners

Capital Impact Partners has a mission to help people and communities reach their highest potential at every stage of life.

Charter School Capital

Charter School Capital provides growth capital and facilities financing to charter schools nationwide.

Charter School Growth Fund

The Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF) identifies the country's best charter schools, funds their expansion, and helps to increase their impact.

Charter Schools Development Corporation

Charter Schools Development Corporation (CSDC) partners with schools enrolling and serving a significant number of students in communities with incomes below the living wage to secure equitable financing and affordable facility solutions.

Civic Builders

Civic Builders’ mission is to ensure that real estate will never be a barrier to an excellent education. Civic Builders is headquartered in New York City.

Community Development Trust

The mission of Community Development Trust (CDT) is to provide long-term capital in the form of loans and equity investments to low- and moderate-income communities throughout the United States.

Crews & Associates, Inc.

Crews is a fixed-income focused, investment banking firm with investor clients in every state. The firm is part of a privately held bank holding company, First Security, which maintains over $8 billion in assets. Crews has participated as a managing underwriter in more than $80 billion municipal bond issues throughout the past 10 years and have been actively growing their charter school financings.

Enterprise Community Loan Fund

Enterprise Community Loan Fund, a national nonprofit loan fund, is a Treasury Department-certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI).

Facilities Investment Fund (FIF)

Facilities Investment Fund is a $100M lending entity managed by Civic Builders. This fund is a groundbreaking opportunity to improve the charter facilities financing market and help high-quality public charter schools find homes in the communities that need them most.

Facility Resource Center

The Facility Resource Center is a charter centric, charter focused firm focused with the exclusive interest of selflessly serving charter school leaders with real estate financing and development throughout the country.

Local Initiatives Support Corporation

Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) equips disinvested communities with the capital, strategy, and know-how to become places where people can thrive.

Low Income Investment Fund

Serving the most underserved and under-resourced communities, Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) is a steward for capital invested in community-building initiatives.

National Capital Resources, LLC

National Capital Resources, LLC is a Redbook full service public finance company, specializing in creative taxable and tax exempt bond and lease financing, municipal and financial advisory services, and corporate private placements, for mid-tier corporate accounts, cities, counties, states, public authorities, school districts, education, and health related institutions throughout the United States.

Nonprofit Finance Fund

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) unlocks the potential of mission-driven organizations through tailored investments, strategic advice, and accessible insights.

Nutshell Associates, LLC

Nutshell Associates LLC are financial consultants and registered municipal advisors that work with charter schools on improving access to capital, including enhancing rating agency and investor relations and articulating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. We collaborate with existing financial advisory or investment banking service providers or work with schools directly.

Prudential Financial, Inc.

Prudential Impact & Responsible Investments (IRI) offers charter schools very flexible terms and creative structures.

Public Economics

Public Economics, Inc., specializes in providing the following financing options: municipal advisor for tax exempt bond offerings, financing through federal Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Bond Guarantee Program, general advisory services, all federal tax credit programs including New Markets Tax Credits (NMTCs).

RBC Capital Markets

RBC Capital Markets, LLC, is a bond underwriting firm based in New York City.

Self-Help Credit Union, Self-Help Federal Credit Union, and Self-Help Ventures Fund

Self-Help’s mission is to create and protect ownership and economic opportunity for all by providing responsible financial services, lending to small businesses and nonprofits, developing real estate, and promoting fair financial practices.

Sorbello Strategic Finance LLC

Sorbello Strategic Finance LLC is a women-owned consulting firm with broad national expertise in charter school facility financing.

Truist Securities

Truist Securities brings together the best of heritage brands SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and BB&T Capital Markets to bring you an even-better, full-service corporate and investment banking experience.

Ziegler

Ziegler has been in the business of providing facility financing to K-12 Charter and independent schools since 1913. Ziegler’s goal is to empower schools with the funding options and solutions to facility financing needs as a lender. Whether you are a large established CMO/EMO or a new school looking for your first building, Ziegler can help educate you on strategies, safe debt capacity and ultimately a long-term fixed rate loan to advance your mission.