About Opportunity Finance Network
Opportunity Finance Network is the leading network of private financial intermediaries identifying and investing in opportunities to benefit low–income and low–wealth people in the U.S. The network’s financing delivers both sound financial returns and real changes for people and communities. CDFIs in the Opportunity Finance Network originated more than $11 billion in financing in unconventional urban, rural, and reservation-based markets through 2005. This has generated or maintained 171,146 jobs; 35,451 businesses; 484,943 housing units; and, 5,153 community facility projects. With cumulative net charge-off rates of less than 1%, these CDFIs have demonstrated that it is possible to lend prudently and productively in unconventional markets often overlooked by conventional financial institutions.
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