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Maximizing The Impact of SSBCI on Small-Dollar Small Business Loans: Program Design Recommendations

Description The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) is a $10 billion federal investment that enables states to craft programs that expand small ...

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

09.30.2024
Microenterprise

Lessons for Global Microfinance from… the United States? — Working Paper

When it comes to charting the future of global microfinance, competing policy priorities and limited budgets prompt a number of key questions — the role ...

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Publication

12.01.2023
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
Employment and Jobs

EOP Newsletter, February 2022

The pandemic and associated crises bring new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

02.28.2022
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
Employment and Jobs

EOP Newsletter, May 2021

The COVID-19 crisis brings new urgency to our work to improve jobs, expand business ownership, and advance economic opportunity.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Of Interest

05.28.2021
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

Remarks by Joyce Klein to Community Development Advisory Board

If we want to reach entrepreneurs of color, we need to ensure that programs and products run through the institutions that serve them.

BY Joyce Klein

Of Interest

08.27.2020
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