The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s (FDIC) Division of Supervision and Consumer Protection’s Community Affairs Program assists financial institutions in developing strategies that are responsive to the credit, service and investment needs of their communities by:

• Fostering initiatives that move unbanked and underserved consumers into mainstream banking relationships
• Promoting community development partnerships and access to capital in historically underserved markets
• Collaborating on community development and asset-building projects and
• Developing products and presenting training programs on financial education.