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Residential solar panels in Austin, TX

Seven OFN Members Receive Grants for Residential Solar under Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund

Isom IGA owner Gwen Christon in front of the community grocery store located in Kentucky

Five Ways OFN Members Celebrate Earth Day Every Day

Jonathan Porter, a client of Northwest Access Fund, which is a CDFI that assisted CCLF in integrating "Accessibility" into its DEI strategy, on a plenary at the 2023 OFN conference.

DEI+A: Chicago CDFI Adds Accessibility to its DEI Strategy

A woman (Wendy Green Daniels) standing before Beechwood Residential building located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LIIF Changes Its Lending Game so Racial Equity Wins

People Trust founder Arlo Washington is featured in the oscar nominee documentary "The Barber of Little Rock"

CDFIs Rally Behind Oscar Nominee “The Barber of Little Rock”

Three women smiling for a selfie on a bright day in Oakland, California. From left to right: PCV Associate Director of Finance, Somer Williams Lee wears sunglasses and a Black Lives Matter mask, in the middle is Black Cultural Zone CEO, Carolyn Johnson wearing blue sunglasses and round beaded earrings, and PCV CEO, Bulbul Gupta wears a black mask with a BLM fist.

Getting Real About Racial Equity in Lending

February 28, 2024

OFN's 2024 Connect+ Forum

Raising Capital for Your CDFI? Don’t Miss OFN’s March 19 Virtual Forum

February 20, 2024

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a CDFI headquartered in New York City, provided Why Not Prosper a $250,000 working capital loan through NFF’s zero-interest CARE Fund to fund the salary of a full-time development director and seed a capital campaign for a retreat center for formerly incarcerated women. Pictured here are NFF staff and Why Not Prosper program participants. Read more about NFF in OFN’s Operationalizing Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (REIA) into Lending Practices toolkit.

From Purpose to Practice: Advancing Racial Equity in Lending

February 14, 2024

A solar energy system installed on a medical office building with CDFI financing

CDFIs Lead the Charge on Solar and Energy-Efficiency Financing

February 9, 2024