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Driving Innovation in Small Business Lending

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Small Business

A Conversation with Michael Barr

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Small Business

Ensuring that Innovation Benefits Small Businesses: The Role of Guardrails

During this event, we heard perspectives from lenders, investors, policymakers, small business owners, and advocates about how to build a financing market that truly works for small businesses.

BY Business Ownership Initiative

Video

03.27.2025
Small Business

Closing the Small Business Capital Gap

Businesses need access to capital to thrive, but 79% of small businesses have trouble accessing credit. Small loans aren’t particularly profitable, so ...

BY The Aspen Partnership for an Inclusive Economy

Blog Post

02.14.2025
Small Business

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
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