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Tag: Racial Equity

Jonathan Porter, a client of Northwest Access Fund, which is a CDFI that assisted CCLF in integrating "Accessibility" into its DEI strategy, on a plenary at the 2023 OFN conference.

DEI+A: Chicago CDFI Adds Accessibility to its DEI Strategy

March 28, 2024

Canners sort bottles and cans for NFF client Sure We Can

From Energy to Equity, NFF Recommits to Climate Justice

March 26, 2024

Willie and Stacy Simms of the Gillespie Grill in Greensboro

OFN’s Statement on the Troubling Trends in the Legal Environment

March 18, 2024

A woman (Wendy Green Daniels) standing before Beechwood Residential building located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

LIIF Changes Its Lending Game so Racial Equity Wins

March 13, 2024

People Trust founder Arlo Washington is featured in the oscar nominee documentary "The Barber of Little Rock"

CDFIs Rally Behind Oscar Nominee “The Barber of Little Rock”

March 7, 2024

Three women smiling for a selfie on a bright day in Oakland, California. From left to right: PCV Associate Director of Finance, Somer Williams Lee wears sunglasses and a Black Lives Matter mask, in the middle is Black Cultural Zone CEO, Carolyn Johnson wearing blue sunglasses and round beaded earrings, and PCV CEO, Bulbul Gupta wears a black mask with a BLM fist.

Getting Real About Racial Equity in Lending

February 28, 2024

Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF), a CDFI headquartered in New York City, provided Why Not Prosper a $250,000 working capital loan through NFF’s zero-interest CARE Fund to fund the salary of a full-time development director and seed a capital campaign for a retreat center for formerly incarcerated women. Pictured here are NFF staff and Why Not Prosper program participants. Read more about NFF in OFN’s Operationalizing Racial Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (REIA) into Lending Practices toolkit.

From Purpose to Practice: Advancing Racial Equity in Lending

February 14, 2024

NBA brothers Terry and Tobias Harris affordable Housing project in Los Angeles

NBA Brothers Aim to Change the Game for Minority Entrepreneurs

February 2, 2024

Help Send CDFIs to SXSW – Vote in PanelPicker!

Help Send CDFIs to SXSW – Vote in PanelPicker!

August 8, 2023