CDBA's Advocacy

Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, left, listens to Jeannine Jacokes,  Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor of CDBA  during a news conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Treasury will use as much as $1 billion fromTARP to spur lending to small businesses through CDFI banks and credit unions. Photo courtesy of Bloomberg.
Timothy Geithner, U.S. treasury secretary, left, listens to Jeannine Jacokes, Executive Director and Senior Policy Advisor of CDBA during a news conference in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010. Treasury will use as much as $1 billion fromTARP to spur lending to small businesses through CDFI banks and credit unions. Photo courtesy of Bloomberg.

CDBA's formal advocacy efforts are conducted through correspondence, testimony, and other formal communications with federal policymakers. If you would like your voice heard in ongoing policy debates, join our association and have your bank's needs expressed and addressed. 

For examples of recent advocacy efforts by CDBA, please see Advocacy Efforts.