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CDL Advantage delivers immediate benefits and opportunities for Trainees, Employers, Schools, Training Facilities, Workforce/Career Development and the communities we serve. 

We provide economic opportunity and access to credit for the under-served.

Using a unique outcome-based finance approach, we provide direct and indirect returns and advantages for all stakeholders and help them to meet their career, business, financial and social missions. 

We have learned that fair returns for you are completely consistent with the social good.

CDLA’s programs, by definition, achieve economic and social impact for all stakeholders:

• Trainees gain new careers at an average of 114% higher earnings; plus health and retirement benefits where before there were often none
• Employers fill jobs with skilled and motivated employees, resulting in further economic growth
• Training facilities expand their reach in both education and enrollment
• Lenders leverage a portfolio with an attractive and growing demographic
• Communities gain more productive citizens who both advance and give back

Enhanced CDL skills, earnings and employment correlate to: 

• Increased home ownership
• Increased family stability
• Better health outcomes
• Increased educational performance for dependent children.  

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When developing a program, we focus on a few key areas that help us understand the ability of our stakeholders to help us fulfill our mission: 

• We look at the current state and strength of each organization - its mission, focus and financial resources 
• We are particularly interested in the potential scope for wider impacts such as fairness, inclusion, diversity and belonging
• We look at the extent to which the organization is providing services to those that would be unable to access them otherwise 

We measure social impact to: 

• Decide how and where to provide CDL loans, training and other financing
• To see how we’re helping stakeholders improve and grow 
• To show our stakeholders where their money is going
• To assess whether the expected benefits have been achieved or exceeded
• To understand what works for stakeholders and help them make better decisions 

We understand and track:

• Our trainees’ ability to achieve their goals via training and CDL financing
• Our programs' outcome-based financial performance
• Our financial partners’ ability to build fair and strong portfolios
• Our employers’ ability to deliver fulfilling and sustainable jobs
• Our training facilities’ effectiveness to educate and place trainee borrowers

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