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PATF Certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI)
February 06, 2012
PATF is pleased and honored to announce that we have been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) by the US Department of Treasury. Organizations certified as CDFIs provide traditionally under-served communities with access to capital, financial services, and technical assistance. CDFI certification will allow PATF to access community development funding in the form of technical and financial assistance grants. This access to additional funding will be utilized to realize our goal of making assistive technology attainable and affordable for Pennsylvanians with disabilities through low or no interest loans and financial education programs.
For more information or to discuss potential partnerships, please contact PATF's Executive Director, Susan Tachau at 484-674-0506.
The National & Local COAT Affiliate Supports Funds For Assistive Technology Loan Programs
November 21, 2011
The Coalition of Organizations for Assistive Technology (COAT) affiliates at both the national and local level recently supported an effort November 3, 2011 to fund anew the consumer assistive technology loan programs originally authorized in the Assistive Technology Act.
You can read the article here.
EQUITY, World Institute on Disability
May 11, 2011
The World Institute on Disability profiled PATF in their April, 2011 newsletter, EQUITY. EQUITY is focused on asset development for people with disabilities, and their article on PATF describes how a low-interest loan helped a person who had insufficient credit purchase a vehicle so that he could go to work. The article also includes a brief history of the federal Assistive Technology (AT) Act and the Alternative Financing Programs.
You can read the article here.
Rep. Kula Calls for PA Support for A.T.
May 10, 2011
At a Capitol news conference on April 27th, state Rep. Deberah Kula joined with other lawmakers and people with disabilities to encourage continued state support of the Pennsylvania Assisted Technology Foundation.
