Enterprise Cascadia is a certified non-profit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) serving urban and rural communities of Oregon and Washington. Enterprise strengthens family, ecological and economic resilience through consulting, financial and business assistance to entrepreneurs, non-profits and others that deliver economic, social and/or environmental benefits to local communities and the larger region.

Since 1995 the Enterprise team has delivered non-bank investment capital and expert services in new ways to rural people and places experiencing the end of a long tradition of prosperity based on resource abundance. Starting in 2007, these same investment and consulting products were extended to urban communities like Seattle and Portland. Enterprise’s products are designed to accelerate the emergence of new traditions for achieving and sustaining prosperity from natural resources.

Enterprise has:

• invested $60 million in 400 business, social and civic ventures that represent new strategies for economic security and ecological health.

• provided over 200 clients with expert advice in matters concerning business strategy, non-profit organizational capacity, new product development, and real estate development.

• made capital investments and services affecting more than 3,058 jobs, and leveraged an additional $255 million in investment by others. 

Our work has earned the support of regional and national funders and been reported on extensively in the media and other publications. In 2007 Enterprise merged with Cascadia Revolving Fund and became Enterprise Cascadia, the largest non-bank CDFI in the Pacific Northwest with more than $70 million in capital assets under management.