News OFN Appoints CDFI Finance Veteran Beth Lipson as Chief Financial Officer OFN has announced that Beth Lipson has been appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Lipson will report to OFN President and CEO Lisa… November 20, 2019
News OFN Closes $100 Million CDFI Bond Guarantee Program Issuance OFN is pleased to announce that we closed a $100 million CDFI Bond Guarantee Program (BGP) issuance on November 4, 2019. We… November 19, 2019
News HOPE Releases HBCU-CDFI Economic Mobility Strategy Guide OFN member Hope Enterprise Corporation/Hope Credit Union (HOPE) recently released findings of a first-of-its-kind collaboration between historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and… November 19, 2019
News OFN Bank Partner Wins 2019 Community Impact Award Woodforest National Bank® (Woodforest) recently received a 2019 Community Impact Award for its Woodforest Foundry℠ program from Wolters Kluwer’s Compliance Solutions business at its annual CRA & Fair Lending… November 14, 2019
News OFN Members Publish Paper Focused on Tackling Persistent Poverty Partners for Rural Transformation, a national coalition to advance economic mobility in persistent poverty areas, led by OFN members Communities Unlimited, Fahe, HOPE, First Nations Oweesta… November 11, 2019
Events, News Lending Where it Counts: An OFN Conference for the Record Books By the numbers, the 2019 OFN Conference will go down in CDFI history: 1 President William Jefferson Clinton; more than 1,500 attendees (the most yet!); 119 sessions across 11 tracks; special… November 4, 2019
News Kansas City Magazine Names OFN Member President One of Region’s 50 Most Powerful People Congratulations to Ruben Alonso III, president of OFN member AltCap based in Kansas City! Recently Kansas City publication 435 Magazine named Alonso to its list of… October 31, 2019
News JPMorgan Chase Now Accepting Applications for Advancing Cities Challenge JPMorgan Chase recently awarded $33 million to support neighborhood development projects and promote inclusive growth across seven communities in the U.S., as… October 31, 2019
News OFN Provides Testimony on Opportunity Zones at House Committee on Small Business Hearing On October 17, OFN’s Chief External Affairs Officer Jennifer A. Vasiloff testified at a hearing before the House Committee on Small Business… October 30, 2019