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Causes: Community & Neighborhood Development, Economic Development
Mission: To be a catalyst for investment in kansas city, missouris low-income communities through innovative financial products, targeted economic and community development programming, and the development of strategic partnerships that promote community collaboration and capacity building.
Programs: The organization provides annual grants and provides services of its staff to a non-profit community development organization that focuses on supporting neighborhood capacity building efforts in the organizations service area.
since 2008, the organization has participated in a federal tax credit program that is used to stimulate investment in econcomically distressed communities. The orgranization has been awarded new market tax credit allocation authority which has been used to finance job creating businesses and as a catalyst for real estate development projects in its service area predominately economically distressed census tracts in the urban core of kansas city, missouri.
as the only mission-driven, kansas city-based cdfi exclusively serving low- to moderate-income communities in kansas city, missouri, altcap is a critical source of small business capital for small and micro business that are undeserved by traditional financial institutions. In fy2016 altcap provided small and microloans to a variety of businesses through its targeted loan funds which include the facade improvement loan fund, artcap microloan fund for artists, and the diversified contractors growth fund mbe/wbe contractor loan fund.