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CDFIs Are Adding a Job Quality Lens to their Advising Work — Here’s How Your Advising Program Can Too

Many community development financial institutions (CDFIs) offer capital and education to small businesses in their communities, helping entrepreneurs — e ...

BY Rossana Espinoza

Blog Post

10.09.2024
Small Business

BOI and the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (Newsletter)

At the beginning of this year, the Aspen Institute’s Business Ownership Initiative joined the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (IIE), a national effort to expand access to capital for small businesses owned by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.

BY Joyce Klein

Blog Post

10.07.2024
Small Business

Advancing CDFI Impact Through a Focus on Job Quality

For decades, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) that lend to small businesses have measured their impact in part by their support for job ...

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Blog Post

10.02.2024
Small Business

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
Small Business

The Power of Peer Learning

At the Aspen Institute’s Business Ownership Initiative (BOI), peer learning is one of the core tools we use to drive innovation and collaboration. As b ...

BY Joyce Klein

Blog Post

05.23.2024
Small Business

Testimony of Joyce Klein, Aspen Institute Business Ownership Initiative and Responsible Business Lending Coalition before the Maryland House of Delegates Economic Matters Committee on HR 0574 Commercial Financing – Small Business Truth in Lending Act

Honorable Delegates, thank you for the opportunity to testify on this important issue. I am the Senior Director of the Business Ownership Initiative at ...

BY Joyce Klein

Blog Post

02.20.2024
Small Business

We Have New Tools To Capitalize CDFI Growth — Let’s Use Them

For decades, when community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have been asked what they need to grow, the response has been the same: “More net ...

BY Brett Simmons, & 1 more

Publication

10.11.2023
Small Business

Shared Success: Scaling Small Business Job Quality

Community development financial institutions will support business owners to improve jobs while strengthening their businesses.

BY Economic Opportunities Program

Blog Post

09.28.2022
Small Business

Here’s How a Federal Truth-in-Lending Law Would Work

In this clip, the Aspen Institute’s Joyce Klein testifies at a congressional hearing on Fintech and Transparency in Small Business Lending.

BY Joyce Klein & 1 more

Video

07.13.2022
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