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Access to Capital

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.

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CDFI clients are…

66% People of Color

85% Low-Income

27% Rural

48% Women

About OFN

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.

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CDFIs Invest in Change

how community lenders helped save small businesses during the pandemic

Key Priorities

CDFIs advance racial equity, combat persistent poverty, fight climate change, and more.

Finance Justice Fund

Finance Justice Fund

The Finance Justice Fund accelerates the work of OFN member CDFIs serving communities experiencing disproportionately high rates of poverty and disinvestment.

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Capital Building

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.

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Willie and Stacy Simms of the Gillespie Grill in Greensboro

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...

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

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:...

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”    

Up for best documentary short film at the Academy Awards on March 10, "The Barber of Little Rock" tells the...

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