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Catalysts for Change: Introducing the YWCA CDFI Map
/ August 31, 2020 / Newswire

This post was written by OFN Blog guest author Liz Lopez, Senior Director of Social Impact Investing & External Affairs, YWCA USA

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Participate in the 2020 Census to Increase Federal Funding for Low-income Communities
Lance Loethen / January 29, 2020 / Newswire

Did you know that 305 federal financial assistance programs relied on U.S.

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The Kresge Foundation Requests Information on Economic Mobility Strategies
/ January 28, 2020 / Newswire

The Kresge Foundation has released a Request for Information (RFI) to gain a stronger understanding of the current and unmet demand for grant and social investment forms of capital to support social and economic...

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Data.org To Launch $10 Million Impact Challenge
/ January 24, 2020 / Newswire

At the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 23, The Rockefeller Foundation and The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth announced ...

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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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