Staff and Community Advisory Board

Tiffany Taylor leads C3 Impact Fund as the Executive Director responsible for strategic planning and capital raising. Prior to C3 Fund, Tiffany served as the Community Reinvestment Act “CRA” Investment Officer for Wintrust Financial. With a passion for providing capital to underserved communities, she underwrote new investments that created or preserved affordable housing and jobs for low to moderate census tracts. In that role, Tiffany managed a $200MM+ portfolio of investments across multiple asset classes such as Loan Pools to CDFIs, Small Business Investment Companies, Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Equity Equivalent Investments, etc. Tiffany also served as the Loan Committee Chair for Community Investment Corporation “CIC” 1-4 Unit Loan Committee and was also a Loan Committee Member for CIC’s Multifamily Lending Program. Previously, Tiffany honed her underwriting skills through credit rotations in: Middle Market Commercial and Industrial, Wealth Services, Franchise Lending, and Capital Markets. Prior to Wintrust, Tiffany started her career at J.P. Morgan where her product knowledge spanned across derivatives trading and syndicated loans. Tiffany received her BS degree in Business Economics from DePaul University. She is also a class of 2019 graduate of the IMPACT Leadership Development Program, a 9 month program for executives in collaboration between Chicago Urban League and University of Chicago Booth. Tiffany is a certified Money Smart instructor and has facilitated financial literacy workshops in underserved communities. In her spare time, Tiffany is a dedicated coach and serves on the associate board of One Million Degrees “OMD”. OMD empowers low-income, highly motivated community college students to succeed in school and work to strengthen the region’s middle class.

Aloni Harris joins C3 Impact Fund, a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) as a Loan Officer. Aloni will be tasked with fulfilling C3’s mission of Catalyzing development in underserved communities, Creating local jobs and Closing the racial/gender wealth gap. Aloni will focus on providing capital solutions to BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and women real estate investors rehabbing 1-4 unit projects in historically disinvested communities. Her most recent employment was a Loan Officer at Greenwood Archer Capital “GAC”. During her tenure at GAC, Aloni played an integral role with helping small businesses grow and scale by not only providing debt and equity investments but also technical assistance. Aloni is a graduate of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut receiving her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science. Since graduation, Aloni passionately volunteers with Black Ivy, a non profit that offers young Black girls on the southside tutoring and mentoring support to help raise their SAT and ACT scores as they begin to apply for college and scholarships. Aloni sits on the Advisory board of the YWCA. She is also a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc where she is a member of the History and Archive Committee and Social Justice Committee.