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The Nonprofit Quarterly has published an interview with OFN President and CEO Lisa Mensah. Entitled “CDFIs and the COVID-19 Moment: Whither Now,…

This month, Congressional committees in the House of Representatives put forth legislation to implement the Biden-Harris Administration’s sweeping federal spending proposals outlined…

On September 9, OFN welcomed more than 1,000 CDFI industry practitioners and partners from across the country for the CONNECT+ Forum: CDFI…

Washington, DC – Nationwide, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) provide fair and responsible financing to people and places traditional banks often don’t…

On September 1, the Biden Administration rolled out a series of programmatic announcements to increase the supply of affordable housing. The White…

OFN is pleased to announce the latest round of Grow with Google Small Business Fund loans and Google.org-funded grants to member CDFIs…

On September 1, the CDFI Fund announced $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations through the Calendar Year 2020 allocation…

The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has released a digital book called…

After more than a decade since the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finally put…