Events, News CDFI Growth Forum Draws More than 1,000 Industry Practitioners and Partners On September 9, OFN welcomed more than 1,000 CDFI industry practitioners and partners from across the country for the CONNECT+ Forum: CDFI… September 16, 2021
News Finance Justice Fund Turns Dreams into Realities for People and Places Underserved by Mainstream Finance Washington, DC – Nationwide, community development financial institutions (CDFIs) provide fair and responsible financing to people and places traditional banks often don’t… September 14, 2021
News Biden Administration Proposes Major Investments in Affordable Housing On September 1, the Biden Administration rolled out a series of programmatic announcements to increase the supply of affordable housing. The White… September 14, 2021
News Announcing Latest OFN Member CDFIs to Receive Google Funding OFN is pleased to announce the latest round of Grow with Google Small Business Fund loans and Google.org-funded grants to member CDFIs… September 14, 2021
News $5 Billion in New Markets Tax Credit Allocations Announced On September 1, the CDFI Fund announced $5 billion in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocations through the Calendar Year 2020 allocation… September 13, 2021
News Aspen Institute, St. Louis Fed Release ‘Future of Building Wealth’ Book Featuring Essay by OFN The Aspen Institute Financial Security Program in partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has released a digital book called… September 9, 2021
News OFN Applauds Release of Long-Awaited Small Business Data Collection Rule After more than a decade since the passage of the Dodd-Frank financial reform legislation, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finally put… September 1, 2021
News Congress Moves on Historic Infrastructure Packages Written by Mary Scott Hardwick & JK Phenix Over the last several months, Congress and the Biden Administration have been laying the groundwork to… August 26, 2021