PRO Neighborhoods

Partnerships for Raising Opportunity in Neighborhoods, known as PRO Neighborhoods, is a program of JPMorgan Chase & Co. to provide funds to community development financial institutions (CDFIs) that collaborate to help revitalize low- and moderate-income communities and aid their residents and small-business owners.

CDFIs are banks, credit unions, loan funds, and other entities that lend money to improve social conditions in disadvantaged neighborhoods. The PRO Neighborhoods program aims to increase the scale and scope of CDFI lending, encourage the creation of new financial instruments for community development, and stimulate the use of quantitative data in community development programs and planning. In 2014, JPMorgan Chase & Co. started the pilot program that became PRO Neighborhoods. In January of that year, JPMorgan Chase announced awards of $33 million over a three-year period to seven groups made up of 26 CDFIs with less than $75 million in net assets. The initial success of this effort led JPMorgan Chase to issue subsequent rounds of awards to collaborating CDFIs in each of the following two years.

The Center examined the objectives, methods, and achievements of the seven CDFI collaborations that received awards. The progress reports and case studies describe the groups and their programs, review overall achievements, and highlight the innovative practices.

Reports and Research Briefs

Innovative Strategies for Affordable Housing (June 2019)
 

The Ingredients of Equitable Development Planning (March 2019)
 

PRO Neighborhoods Progress Report 2018 (October 2018)

 

PRO Neighborhoods Progress Report 2017 (September 2017)
 

PRO Neighborhoods Progress Report 2016 (October 2016) 


Equitable Development: Action Steps for CDFIs (March 2018)


Case Studies

Midwest Nonprofit Lenders Alliance (April 2017)

Chicago CDFI Collaborative (June 2017)

Adelante Phoenix (July 2017)