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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Last month, the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), the nation’s leading community development financial institution (CDFI) trade association, held its first in-person national conference in three years in New York City. “It’s our job somehow to graft a conscience on the capitalist.”. Chuck Matthei, CDFI movement cofounder, 1985.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

This approach would also systematically integrate socio-economic issues such as co-locating affordable housing and transit. Proponents of this positive psychology movement argue that poor people should not be “completely defined by their poverty, nor can they be fully understood in its terms alone.”

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