The NEXT American Opportunity: Good Policies for a Great America is the foundation of Opportunity Finance Network’s policy agenda in 2008, 2009 and beyond.

Members have played a key role in the project since its inception: you provided us with financial support for publication. Your representatives served on the project’s Advisory Board, recommending subject areas and vetting policy recommendations. And, of course, OFN Members wrote most of the articles. The Web site will help you work with OFN on the NEXT steps in making the ideas in the project into political reality. You can:

• Bring opportunity finance into the public policy conversation. We want candidates to know about opportunity finance and its contributions to small business, housing, the environment, rural America, asset-building, the nonprofit sector, and innovative uses of federal funding. Click here to get started!
• Learn more about CDFI innovations. Each recommendation paper was written by a CDFI practitioner with extensive experience in the topic. If you’re interested in learning more about the opportunity finance role in any of the 42 issues the papers explore, just tap into the CDFI expertise in that area. A customer profile accompanies each overview and recommendation paper, for even more background on CDFI work that links policy and practice. Here is a complete list of all of the papers in the book, and here is the full catalog of CDFIs’ success stories illustrating their work in action.
• Find out more about the conversation. Click here