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Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are specialized lenders that bring capital to low-income, low-wealth communities. CDFI financial products and services support small businesses, affordable housing, community facilities, and more nationwide.
About OFN
Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) is the leading national network of CDFIs and a financial intermediary. OFN increases capital flow, strengthens CDFIs, and amplifies the voice of the CDFI industry. We partner with investors, funders, and policymakers to align capital with opportunity.
CDFIs Invest in Change
Key Priorities
CDFIs advance racial equity, combat persistent poverty, fight climate change, and more.
Finance Justice Fund
The Finance Justice Fund accelerates the work of OFN member CDFIs serving communities experiencing disproportionately high rates of poverty and disinvestment.
Partnering with the Public Sector
OFN is the leading voice for the CDFI industry. Policymakers turn to CDFIs to drive transformational capital to historically underinvested rural, urban, and Native communities.
OFN’s Statement on the Troubling Trends in the Legal Environment
Read time: 2 minutes We are dismayed by the recent ruling in Texas finding that the Minority Business Development Agency’s...
LIIF Changes Its Lending Game so Racial Equity Wins
OFN member LIIF launches a Black Developer Capital Initiative to move the needle on racial equity in lending. Read time:...
CDFIs Rally Behind Oscar Nominee “The Barber of Little Rock”
Up for best documentary short film at the Academy Awards on March 10, "The Barber of Little Rock" tells the...