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Using Data to Drive Investment and Impact
/ September 29, 2019 / Voices

Recently Reinvestment Fund President and CEO Donald Hinkle-Brown published an article explaining how CDFIs and other community lenders can use data and research to target investments in ways that create real impact.

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OFN Member Staff and Board Members Eligible for Master’s Level Education Award
/ August 22, 2019 / Newswire

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Community Development Trust and Raza Development Fund Collaborate with Bank of America on New charter school
/ April 26, 2017 / Newswire

New York, NY—(Marketwired, April 26, 2017)—The Community Development Trust (CDT), Raza Development Fund (RDF), and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BofAML) are collaborating to invest $14 million toward the construction of a new $16.5 million school in partnership with the Classical Charter...

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Learning the Fundamentals of Opportunity Finance
Beth Lipson / July 7, 2016 / Events

Last week CDFI practitioners, investors, and other key industry stakeholders came from places as far as Oregon and South Carolina, gathering in New Hampshire to take a deep dive into opportunity finance through our Fundamentals of the...

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CDFI News Roundup May 30-June 2
Lindsay Li / June 3, 2016 / Newswire

This week, design concepts for a placemaking effort in Philadelphia were unveiled, with the support of Philadelphia LISC and local city partners; a former hotel will become an affordable housing residence in Chicago; New Jersey Community Capital is the winning bidder on Fannie Mae’s third...

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