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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…

On August 19, OFN’s President and CEO Lisa Mensah and Vice President of Public Policy Dafina Williams participated in a community development tour in Washington, D.C., hosted by the Office…

With just over a week until the end of fiscal year (FY) 2019, Congress has yet to finalize any of its spending bills to fund the federal government…

On September 17, OFN partners Inclusiv and The Kresge Foundation announced the formation of a $45 million fund that will invest capital in credit unions serving…

On September 19, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) awarded 73 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) $9.16…

Last week, several OFN members testified in Houston, Texas, before the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on the topic of…