Publications

"Six Lessons Learned from Create Jobs for USA,” provides an overview of results of Create Jobs for USA, a successful initiative launched in November 2011 by Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network to help address the jobs crisis.

The first in a series of three reports about Create Jobs for USA, this publication shares the lessons learned from the initiative.

By publishing this series, we hope to demonstrate the successful collaboration of many partners, and how community lenders are contributing to solving the jobs crisis in the U.S. by creating and retaining jobs in underserved urban, rural, and native communities.

We’d like to thank Member CDFIs who participated in this initiative and helped make it a success. We appreciate your participation: your work to create and retain jobs and to tell the story of CDFIs and the community businesses they serve gave meaning to the effort and helped create or retain more than 5,000 American jobs. We’re also grateful for the strong corporate leadership of Starbucks, without whose vision, leadership, and support this initiative wouldn’t have been possible.

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The Opportunity Finance Network CDFI Market Conditions Report is based on a survey of community
development financial institutions (CDFIs). Opportunity Finance Network began conducting these surveys
in October 2008 to better understand the impacts of tight credit markets and the economic downturn on
the opportunity finance industry. Through the first half of 2012, OFN conducted a survey each quarter
and published four Market Conditions Reports each year. Beginning in the second half of 2013, OFN has
conducted two quarterly surveys each year and published two Market Conditions Reports each year
based on second and fourth quarter activity. Each report provides a view of CDFI responses to current
market conditions, analysis of regional and primary financing sector differences, and analysis of important
trends.

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FREE

The Opportunity Finance Network CDFI Market Conditions Report is based on a survey of community
development financial institutions (CDFIs). Opportunity Finance Network began conducting these surveys
in October 2008 to better understand the impacts of tight credit markets and the economic downturn on
the opportunity finance industry. Through the first half of 2012, OFN conducted a survey each quarter
and published four Market Conditions Reports each year. Beginning in the second half of 2013, OFN has
conducted two quarterly surveys each year and published two Market Conditions Reports each year
based on second and fourth quarter activity. Each report provides a view of CDFI responses to current
market conditions, analysis of regional and primary financing sector differences, and analysis of important
trends.

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This report highlights five examples of higher education-CDFI partnership, involving projects in Philadelphia (TRF and LaSalle University), Chicago (IFF and University of Chicago), Durham, N.C. (Self-Help and Duke University); New Orleans (Hope and Delgado Community College), and multiple communities in North Carolina (LCCU and University of Virginia).

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Written in 1994 by OFN CEO and President Mark Pinsky, this report on the CDFI industry is relevant today. It describes the impact the still-young field had already accomplished, as well as how CDFIs could play a lead role in a federally-assisted community development lending program.

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The Opportunity Finance Network CDFI Market Conditions Report is based on a survey of community

development financial institutions (CDFIs). Opportunity Finance Network began conducting these surveys

in October 2008 to better understand the impacts of tight credit markets and the economic downturn on

the opportunity finance industry. Through the first half of 2012, OFN conducted a survey each quarter

and published four Market Conditions Reports each year. Beginning in the second half of 2013, OFN has

conducted two quarterly surveys each year and published two Market Conditions Reports each year

based on second and fourth quarter activity. Each report provides a view of CDFI responses to current

market conditions, analysis of regional and primary financing sector differences, and analysis of important

trends.

Download

Cost:
FREE