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Employment and Jobs

Leveraging Small Business Owner’s Perspective on Job Quality: Utilizing A-B Partner’s Research Findings in the CDFI Industry

The shifting landscape of workforce dynamics amidst the COVID pandemic, combined with a competitive labor market, have increased recognition of the need fo ...

BY Bryn Morgan

Blog Post

04.30.2024
Business and Markets

It’s Time to Shine a Light on Small Business Lending

Motherhood. Apple Pie. Homeownership. Small Businesses. While all are fundamental parts of American identity, one is not like the other. The federal govern ...

BY Joyce Klein

Blog Post

07.25.2023
Racial Equity

Scaling Lending: Strategies & Tactics for High-Volume Originations

This paper shares key lessons on microloan origination, including practices of CDFIs that are originating thousands of loans annually.

BY Eric Weaver & 2 more

Publication

03.14.2023
Small Business

San Francisco Entrepreneurs of Color Fund

SFEOCF seeks to create a more accessible and seamless continuum of capital and services for entrepreneurs of color in San Francisco.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

12.01.2021
Racial Equity

Scaling Lending to Entrepreneurs of Color

Providing loans and grants to diverse entrepreneurs has been seen by many as an important way to address the racial wealth gap.

BY Eric Weaver & 2 more

Publication

11.17.2021
Racial Equity

Equity and Employee Ownership

Employee ownership can promote equity, improve job quality, and boost business performance.

BY Maureen Conway & 9 more

Publication

04.01.2021
Finance and Assets

Bridging the Divide

Our nation faces a growing racial wealth gap. How can entrepreneurship help build wealth for people of color?

BY Joyce Klein

Publication

01.23.2017
Microenterprise

Entrepreneurship as a Re-Entry Strategy

This guide examines the role of business ownership and entrepreneurship in helping formerly-incarcerated individuals navigate re-entry.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

09.12.2016
Finance and Assets

Narrowing the Racial Wealth Gap

This guide identifies tools and strategies funders can employ to advance business ownership as a means to build wealth and reduce the racial and ethnic wealth gap.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

11.01.2015