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OFN is delighted to announce influential community development practitioner, researcher, and educator Michael Swack has been named recipient of the 2019 Ned Gramlich Lifetime…

Exciting news! To mark the 25th anniversary of the CDFI Fund, President Bill Clinton will keynote the October 21 luncheon plenary of OFN’s annual…

On October 4, OFN President and CEO Lisa Mensah joined Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, members of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors Michelle Bowman and Lael Brainard,…

Former Low Income Investment Fund (LIIF) President & CEO Nancy O. Andrews recently published a paper entitled “Race, Gender and Equity in Community Development:…

The Good to Grow CDFI Investment Fund (G2G Fund), a joint venture of the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) and HSBC Bank, has awarded Capital…

The 2019 OFN Conference is almost here! Here are a few new and special activities we think you’ll want to add to your schedule now….

Recently honored as one of Women in Housing & Finance’s “40 under 40,” OFN Vice President of Public Policy Dafina Williams has been quietly…

Recently, Reinvestment Fund President and CEO Donald Hinkle-Brown published an article explaining how CDFIs and other community lenders can use data and…

Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac (the Enterprises), and the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), in collaboration with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis…