Community Development Banking List
04-19-2011, 11:30 AM
Original message from: JFox@OpportunityFinance.net
Opportunity Finance Network invites you and the CDFIs in your network to complete the OFN CDFI Market Conditions Survey, 1st Quarter 2011<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marketconditions_1q11>. ('http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marketconditions_1q11>.') The Survey must be completed online by May 5th at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The quarterly CDFI Market Conditions Survey is the only survey of its kind; there is no other source of near-real-time data on the CDFI industry. Opportunity Finance Network began conducting these surveys for CDFIs in October 2008 to better understand the impacts of tight credit markets and the economic downturn on the opportunity finance industry. By participating in this important survey, you can help ensure that you, your peers, funders, investors, and policy makers have the most accurate and complete information on what is happening in the industry today.
The survey is organized into five sections:
I. DEMAND FOR FINANCING
II. CAPITALIZATION AND LIQUIDITY
III. FINANCIAL AND PORTFOLIO DATA
IV. OUTLOOK
V. ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Survey Tip: Once you start the survey, you must complete it without logging off. To get ready, you may want to print a Practice Copy of 1st Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Survey<http://www.opportunityfinance.net/public/files/Market%20Conditions%20Survey%20Instrument%20Q1-2011.pdf>, ('http://www.opportunityfinance.net/public/files/Market%20Conditions%20Survey%20Instrument%20Q1-2011.pdf>,') write out your answers, and then go online to complete it. You must submit the survey online as we cannot accept hard copies.
OFN will analyze the survey responses and issue the 1st Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Report in June 2011. You can download a free copy of the 4th Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Report, published in March 2011, at www.opportunityfinance.net/store<http://www.opportunityfinance.net/store>. ('http://www.opportunityfinance.net/store>.') I encourage you to share your CDFI's experiences and assure you that OFN will not release any individual CDFI's responses: our goal is to provide an understanding what is happening across the industry, not within any single CDFI. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Donna Fabiani at dfabiani@opportunityfinance.net<mailto:dfabiani@opportunityfinance.net> or 202-250-5519.
Thank you very much for your participation.
Mark Pinsky
President & CEO
Opportunity Finance Network invites you and the CDFIs in your network to complete the OFN CDFI Market Conditions Survey, 1st Quarter 2011<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marketconditions_1q11>. ('http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/marketconditions_1q11>.') The Survey must be completed online by May 5th at 5:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
The quarterly CDFI Market Conditions Survey is the only survey of its kind; there is no other source of near-real-time data on the CDFI industry. Opportunity Finance Network began conducting these surveys for CDFIs in October 2008 to better understand the impacts of tight credit markets and the economic downturn on the opportunity finance industry. By participating in this important survey, you can help ensure that you, your peers, funders, investors, and policy makers have the most accurate and complete information on what is happening in the industry today.
The survey is organized into five sections:
I. DEMAND FOR FINANCING
II. CAPITALIZATION AND LIQUIDITY
III. FINANCIAL AND PORTFOLIO DATA
IV. OUTLOOK
V. ORGANIZATION INFORMATION
Survey Tip: Once you start the survey, you must complete it without logging off. To get ready, you may want to print a Practice Copy of 1st Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Survey<http://www.opportunityfinance.net/public/files/Market%20Conditions%20Survey%20Instrument%20Q1-2011.pdf>, ('http://www.opportunityfinance.net/public/files/Market%20Conditions%20Survey%20Instrument%20Q1-2011.pdf>,') write out your answers, and then go online to complete it. You must submit the survey online as we cannot accept hard copies.
OFN will analyze the survey responses and issue the 1st Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Report in June 2011. You can download a free copy of the 4th Quarter 2011 CDFI Market Conditions Report, published in March 2011, at www.opportunityfinance.net/store<http://www.opportunityfinance.net/store>. ('http://www.opportunityfinance.net/store>.') I encourage you to share your CDFI's experiences and assure you that OFN will not release any individual CDFI's responses: our goal is to provide an understanding what is happening across the industry, not within any single CDFI. If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Donna Fabiani at dfabiani@opportunityfinance.net<mailto:dfabiani@opportunityfinance.net> or 202-250-5519.
Thank you very much for your participation.
Mark Pinsky
President & CEO