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Small Business

EBA Fund Welcomes New Funding and Commitments

Funding will advance an emerging secondary market for community-based microlending for small businesses, filling a vital role in creating opportunity and equity in low-income communities.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Of Interest

12.02.2021
Small Business

EBA Fund on FINTECH+

How can the financial system convert the value and promise of entrepreneurship into an asset?

BY Joyce Klein & 3 more

Video

03.27.2021
Small Business

Building an Inclusive Economy Through Community-Based Financial Institutions: A Conversation with Joyce Klein and Janie Barrera

The Aspen Institute and the Microfinance Impact Collaborative recently announced the creation of the Entrepreneur Backed Assets (EBA) Fund, which will strengthen the capacity of community-based financial institutions to lend to small businesses in low-income communities and those owned by people of color.

BY Daniel R. Porterfield

Of Interest

02.03.2021
Small Business

Inclusion and Equity through Entrepreneurship

This episode of the CRA Podcast looks at the Entrepreneur Backed Assets Fund, which has created a secondary market for small business loans.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Podcast

01.30.2021
Small Business

Women Entrepreneurs Need Access to Capital

While the Paycheck Protection Program was intended to help small businesses hit hardest by COVID-19, it failed to deliver on its promise.

BY Geri Stengel, Forbes

Blog Post

01.06.2021
Small Business

A New Tool to Address the Racial Wealth Gap

Businesses owned by people of color tend to be in less profitable industries because of the effects of systemic inequality and racism.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Blog Post

12.18.2020
Small Business

Making Small Business Lending Work for More People Without Anyone Noticing

There’s no equivalent for Fannie Mae when it comes to microloans — until now.

BY Oscar Perry Abello, Next City

Blog Post

12.15.2020
Small Business

Using Loans to Close the Racial Wealth Gap

CDFIs have shown that they can provide a financial lifeline to Black, Hispanic, and female business owners who have been neglected by mainstream banks.

BY Marc Gunther, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Blog Post

12.10.2020
Small Business

Press Release: EBA Fund

The Aspen Institute and the Microfinance Impact Collaborative announced the creation of the Entrepreneur Backed Assets (EBA) Fund, which will provide critical support to community-based microlenders.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Of Interest

12.03.2020