CSFD is a certified national CDFI established in 2018, with a national footprint and a Midwest specialization, that provides affordable facility solutions to high quality charter schools in underserved neighborhoods.
We believe that investment in education pays the best return.
To facilitate community development through assisting public charter schools to finance facilities located in low-income, economically distressed neighborhoods.
To provide high performing public charter schools with comprehensive facility solutions to open and operate in safe, affordable, and state of the art facilities.
Your investment will help send more underserved kids to college. To invest in education:
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Kairat Mavlyankulov – CEO
As CEO, Kairat is responsible for all aspects of organizational operations, lending, strategy, consulting, and development. With over 15 years of comprehensive community development experience, Kairat has broad, direct experience in non-profit management, community development, charter school facility financing, planning, and turnkey development.
Before joining CSFD, Kairat was COO and CFO of New Plan Learning, a Community Development Entity where he helped create over one million square feet of space for charter schools and financed over $200 million in charter school facility financing. He also held finance and accounting roles in the financial industry.
He is the board chair of the Future Institute – an organization focused on supporting charter school high school students’ college transition, college persistence, and career readiness.
Kairat has a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from DePaul University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Andrew Baldwin – Chief Credit Officer/Chief Lending Officer
As Chief Credit/Lending Officer, Andrew manages CSFD’s lending initiatives and assists the CEO with strategic growth of the organization. Previously, Andrew served as Chief Lending and Credit Officer at Partners for the Common Good (PCG). In over six years at PCG, Andrew played a key role in significant expansion of their lending activities, including building their New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program and leading the development of an innovative off-balance sheet fund designed to expand capital access for the CDFI industry.
Prior to joining PCG, Andrew was Director of Loan Originations at Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). Over an eleven year period at CSH, he played key roles in the growth of lending and NMTC investing, geographic expansion, as well as new product development. Prior experience includes work in housing development and finance in Los Angeles, economic development in Upstate New York, and management consulting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Andrew is also a former U.S. Army Officer.
Andrew has a BA in Economics from George Washington University and a Master in Public Policy degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.
Jamie Prijatel – Director of Programs
As Director of Programs, Jamie project manages CSFD’s new initiatives and projects across states with governmental offices, charter schools, charter management organizations, and other key partners. Jamie leads and collaborates with the team to identify and write federal, state, local, and private grant opportunities and works closely with the team to advance and meet fundraising goals.
Before joining CSFD, as a consultant Jamie worked with client teams and partners to project manage and write state charter school start-up grant applications, private facilities lending applications, and private foundation grant applications generating private grants and loan awards of approximately $3,360,000M. In addition, Jamie acted as Interim Senior Loan Officer at a CDFI and underwrote three facility loans for two high-performing CMOs, one in Los Angeles and the other in the Bay area in the span of six months.
Prior to consulting, Jamie held various roles at the New York City Department of Education, including the roles of charter school Authorizer and Associate Director of New School Development. Jamie has experience working with various school model designs across the country, such as Career and Technical Education, Montessori K-12 education, agri-focused/PBL high school, blended learning, credit recovery, English Learner common language, and dual language (Spanish and English), diverse by design, and special education. Jamie has worked across the following states: Louisiana, New York, California, Colorado, Michigan, Missouri, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, and South Carolina.
Jamie has a BA in Psychology from Boston University and a Master in Public Policy and Administration degree from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.
Dr. Savas Kaya – Board President and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Ohio University.
Dr. Savas Kaya received the M.Phil. degree from the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K., in 1994, with a focus on polarization insensitive liquid crystal switches and the Ph.D. degree from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, U.K., in 1998, with a focus on strained Si quantum wells on vicinal substrates.
He was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Glasgow between 1998 and 2001, carrying out research in transport and scaling of Si/SiGe MOSFETs, and fluctuation phenomena in decananp MOSFETs. His broad research interests include semiconductor physics, transport theory, device modeling and process integration, nanofabrication, nanostructures and sensors for flexible electronics integration and printed electronics.
Multi-modal sensors he develops using flexible electronic devices and printing methods are intended for biomedical, environmental and structural health monitoring applications. In recent years Dr. Kaya also had significant research activity in mixed-signal circuits design using nano-meter scale FinFETs with applications in wireless networking, RF CMOS sub-systems as well as sub-10nm logic devices for ultra-low power, scalable computing and secure computing hardware.
Rebecca Salvo – Secretary and Senior Vice President & Vice President of Real Estate Development at 22Beacon
Rebecca Salvo brings her real estate expertise to support the organization’s mission of expanding charter school facilities. She currently serves as Senior Vice President and Vice President of Real Estate Development at 22 Beacon, where she leads real estate development for charter school clients, guiding facilities from site selection through construction to help schools create high-quality learning environments.
Prior to her work in real estate, Rebecca built her career in fixed income and equity markets. She holds an MBA from the University of Maryland and a BA in Marketing and Communication from the University of Pittsburgh.
Kairat Mavlyankulov – Treasurer and Chief Capital and Investment Officer at Concept Schools. See Link to Bio.
Glen Maurer – Board Member and Vice President – Commercial Lending at First Merchants Bank. See Link to Bio.
Larita Mimms – Board Member and Chief Financial Officer at Partners for the Common Good, a national CDFI. See link to bio.