East Texas Expansion
The T.L.L. Temple Foundation was looking for ways to serve small businesses in the 21 counties in East Texas. When the foundation realized there was a lack of CDFIs in the area. So, they created the Rural Opportunity Catalyst for East Texas (ROC-ET) Initiative. The foundation chose two CDFIs, one of which is Communities Unlimited. Since the opening of the office in October of 2022 with Lending staff, we've added Entrepreneurship staff and Community Sustainability.
Partnership In The Panhandle
Communities Unlimited held the grand opening of our office in Amarillo, TX, to serve the Texas Panhandle, an endeavor made possible by new partnerships with the Amarillo Area Foundation, area banks and local philanthropists. The office offers small business consulting, community sustainability and environmental services—a first in Communities Unlimited history.
A merger
Community Resources Group and alt.Consulting merged to form Communities Unlimited. Communities Unlimited is the new, innovative nonprofit designed to assist communities across the South grow and prosper by providing expertise and lending programs for small businesses, entrepreneurs, families, communities, and water/wastewater systems.
alt.Consulting CDFI & new programs
alt.Consulting is certified as a CDFI and begins making loans to small businesses and launches Communities of Innovation to help communities identify new, innovative ways to use their rich agricultural resources and heritage for economic growth.
alt.Consulting opens its office
alt.consulting opens its first office in the Delta and helped more than 4,000 small businesses grow, offer jobs and create new wealth in their communities
Wealth Creation Project
After two decades of working hands-on in the Texas Rio Grande Valley, CRG joins the Wealth Creation Project, a pro-active initiative to improve the livelihoods of the regions over 420,000 residents living below the poverty line.
Loans begin
CRG begins making loans to help communities ensure the delivery of safe drinking water and provide safe, affordable housing for low-income families.
CRG affiliates with RCAP
CRG becomes a regional affiliate for Rural Community Assistance Partnership (RCAP) helping communities that want to build, maintain or expand their water and wastewater infrastructure
CRG opens it's doors
Community Resource Group (CRG) opens it's doors to provide technical assistance to help small, rural communities solve water and wastewater problems and making life better for low-income, hardworking families.