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The External Relations team is happy to announce that Carol Carr has accepted the Senior Associate position. Carol will begin on May 19, 2008. Her primary responsibilities are: proposal writing, funder and investor report writing; donor and investor tracking, prospect research and assistance with sponsorship recruitment and fulfillment. The position is based in our headquarters in Philadelphia. Please join us in welcoming Carol.

Opportunity Finance Network would like to thank the Home Depot Foundation for its generous contribution to expand our capacity to provide education, training, and planning leadership on green housing finance to the national network of opportunity finance practitioners. This grant will enable OFN to provide training on Green Financing at our Regional Meetings and Conference and it will enable us to develop a longer term Green Financing strategy. Thank You Home Depot.

OFN would like to thank the following donors for their generous support:

• The 13 sponsors to date who have signed on to support the 2008 OFN Conference.
• Bank of America for its sponsorship of the Mid-West Regional Meeting.
• The Home Depot Foundation for its sponsorship of OFN’s Regional Meetings.
• The Energy Program Consortium for its support of the Mortgage Platform.
• WAMU for its support of CARS™
• The Ford Foundation for its support of OFN’s upcoming policy book The NEXT American Opportunity: Good Policies for a Great America.

See all our generous donors.