Iosefa Alofaituli

Board Member

​Iosefa Alofaituli joined Opportunity Fund as Regional Director for Southern California in 2016, working to build a more inclusive economic ecosystem for all. In this role, Iosefa is helping to scale the non-profit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) to deepen its impact in Southern California by leading fund, brand and partnership development in the region. Already the nation’s largest non-profit small business lender – with over $100 million in small business loans under management – Iosefa helps to attract the capital that will quadruple Opportunity Fund’s impact by 2020.

With a background in social entrepreneurship, Iosefa previously helped launch and lead two nonprofit organizations focused on community and economic empowerment. From an innovative place-based organization creating systems change in a low-income Latino community in Orange County, to an entrepreneurship center focused on young, minority and underserved entrepreneurs, Iosefa has been a leader with a passion to back those who lack opportunities. He was also a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic where he served as an Economic Development Advisor to a community of miners and artisans.

Iosefa grew up in Southern California before graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, where he captained their Ivy League championship team. He’s a proud father of two boisterous boys, and he and his wife, who he met in the Peace Corps, live in the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno.