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Liberty Financial Services
6600 Plaza Dr., Suite 600New Orleans LA, 70127-5709
CDFI Awards for Liberty Financial Services
FA (2009) - $2,000,000
Liberty Financial Services is a for-profit financial service certified CDFI founded in 1985. Headquartered in New Orleans, Liberty Financial Services offers banking services, consumer lending, home purchase mortgage financing and business lending for low income customers throughout the Gulf Coast region. Liberty Financial Services will use its FY 09 FA award will be used to make equity investments in small businesses and creating jobs within its service areas.
FA (2008) - $1,096,470
Liberty Financial Services (LFS) is a certified CDFI established in 1986. LFS’s community bank subsidiary provides full service banking and financial services to distressed markets in New Orleans, Louisiana; Baton Rouge, Louisiana; Jackson, Mississippi; and Houston, Texas. LFS will use the FY08 Financial Assistance award of $1,000,000 to fund a new first time homebuyer program targeted to borrowers affected by Hurricane Katrina. LFS will use the FY08 Technical Assistance grant of $96,470 to fund the salary of a new bilingual financial literacy and housing specialist and to build internal IT capabilities.
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