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Senate Hearing: The Paycheck Protection Program: Performance, Impact, and Next Steps

U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship

Lisa Mensah — president and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network — was invited to speak during the U.S. Senate Committee on Small Business & Entrepreneurship’s hearing, “The Paycheck Protection Program: Performance, Impact, and Next Steps.”

Community Development Financial Institutions: Financing Justice, Investing in Hope With Lisa Mensah

Capital for Good Podcast - Tamer Center for Social Enterprise at Columbia Business School

Lisa Mensah, president and CEO of Opportunity Finance Network, discusses economic and community development finance institutions (CDFIs), finance justice, and ways the Biden-Harris Administration can support CDFIs to “finance hope” and help struggling communities build back stronger.

Public Policy Wins to Benefit Communities: The Roles for Mission Investors in 2021

Mission Investors Exchange

In this webinar, Shena Ashley of Urban Institute, Melanie Audette of Mission Investors Exchange, Lisa Mensah of Opportunity Finance Network, and Fran Seegull of The U.S. Impact Investing Alliance will reveal public policy recommendations that can best leverage private capital for public good, and the roles foundations can take to advance these policies for a just and equitable recovery from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Financing Racial Equity: National CDFI Perspectives

NAAHL/CCL Webinar Series

Watch what OFN President and CEO, Lisa Mensah, and three other national CDFI leaders have to say about how a renewed focus on racial equity is changing their work, the practice of community development, and the public policy agenda.

How Can We Help Americans Recover From a Pandemic?

An Atlantic Roundtable, Underwritten by Google

This recap from The Atlantic’s roundtable held in November 2020, and underwritten by Google, features insights from OFN President and CEO Lisa Mensah, along with academic leaders, policymakers, and economic experts from across the nation.

Finance Justice & Finance First Responders

What Does it Profit (podcast)

OFN President and CEO, Lisa Mensah joined the “What Does It Profit?” podcast to discuss the role of money and CDFIs in fighting for justice in the U.S. and the unlikely partners that can play a crucial part in bringing about a brighter future for underestimated communities.

Welcome Remarks

OFN 2020 Virtual Conference

OFN President and CEO Lisa Mensah welcomes participants to OFN’s annual conference and talks about the long march to finance justice.

Access Denied: “Systemic racism in financial services”

Arizent - Access Denied (podcast)

Episode one of a podcast series from Arizent that examines institutional barriers as well as racist practices in the financial sector and ways to overcome or eliminate these system problems.

Investing in the Community: Minority Banks and Community Development Financial Institutions

Virtual 2020 Annual Legislative Conference - Congressional Black Caucus Foundation

Ending redlining: how minority banks and community development financial institutions can ensure equitable recovery for the black community.

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