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On October 17, OFN’s Chief External Affairs Officer Jennifer A. Vasiloff testified at a hearing before the House Committee on Small Business…

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,…

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

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…

The CDFI Fund has released the Notice of Allocation Availability (NOAA) for the 2019 Calendar Year (CY) round of the New Markets…

On August 27, Philadelphia-based OFN member Reinvestment Fund announced $1.8 million in financial and technical assistance awards to 23 projects through the Healthy Food Financing…

Has your organization recently seen an increase in small business owners looking to refinance from high-cost debt products? OFN is seeking stories…

The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) held a public hearing on the second round of Opportunity Zone…

The authorization for the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) is set to expire at the end of 2019 and Congress has begun…