NewsOFN Board Member Testifies at Senate Small Business Committee HearingOn April 3, the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee held a hearing entitled “Reauthorization of the SBA’s Access to Capital Programs”… April 26, 2019
NewsOFN CEO Lisa Mensah Shares Insights on Racial Diversity in Community Development LeadershipRecently OFN President and CEO Lisa Mensah shared her perspectives with nonprofit publication Shelterforce about the past, present, and future of community… April 24, 2019
NewsCDFI Practitioners Earn Certificates in Community Development FinanceFrom April 10-12, OFN joined the University of New Hampshire Carsey School of Public Policy in leading “Fundamentals of the Opportunity Finance… April 24, 2019
NewsCDFI Leaders’ Op-Ed Calls for CRA Reform To Tackle Rural PovertyAmerican Banker recently published an op-ed authored by CDFI leaders Bill Bynum (Hope Enterprise Corporation), Chrystel Cornelius (First Nations Oweesta Corporation), and… April 22, 2019
NewsCDFI Fund Director Jodie Harris Testifies at Senate Committee on Indian Affairs HearingOn April 10, CDFI Fund Director Jodie Harris testified at the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Hearing entitled, “Building Out Indian Country:… April 19, 2019
NewsSilicon Valley Tech Company Adds $10 Million to CDFI Affordable Housing FundCloud data services company NetApp recently announced a $10 million investment to build and preserve low-cost housing in the Bay Area as… April 9, 2019
NewsLatest Updates from the CDFI FundSee below for key updates from the CDFI Fund: Apply Now: FY 2019 Funding Round for CDFI Program and NACA Program Open… April 4, 2019
NewsUrge Congress to Support the CDFI Fund in FY 2020 AppropriationsSpring has arrived in Washington DC, and that means appropriations season is heating up on Capitol Hill. With the recent release of… April 2, 2019
NewsOpportunity Zones UpdateOFN continues to pursue federal regulations to make the opportunity zone provision as effective as possible and to reduce the likelihood of… April 2, 2019