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Nov 24 2020
#RFBreakthrough
Changing the Landscape Through Access to Capital
Small businesses are struggling to recover from Covid-19, and Black-owned businesses are among the hardest hit. Further complicating the recovery for these businesses is the fact that they typically have …
Sep 18 2020
Zero Gap Fund Update
Climate change, food insecurity, inequality, energy poverty, the threat of pandemics: these are the defining challenges of our time; challenges that require significantly more resources than philanthropy and government alone can …
Innovative Finance Global
Sep 10 2020
Perspective
Standing Firm Beside Underserved Women in Asia
When Durreen Shahnaz first floated the idea of creating a new financing vehicle explicitly to help underserved women entrepreneurs in Asia, bankers and financiers advised her against including the word …
May 04 2020
Perspective
Moving to Blunt the Impact of Covid-19
The Covid-19 pandemic has exposed deep inequities and vulnerabilities in even the world’s most advanced economies just as it tests our collective abilities to respond. Government, as well as private …
Apr 14 2020
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Mobilizing Private Capital for Impact: Anacostia
We are working with local leaders and organizations in #OpportunityZones across America to ensure that legacy residents are the beneficiaries of new investments in their communities.