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On February 22, the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) announced more than $175 million in grants to 27…

Comcast has announced the next element of Comcast RISE – the Comcast RISE Investment Fund. This $5 million grant program will provide 100 individual…

The Carsey School of Public Policy at the University of New Hampshire is known throughout New England for its commitment to public service education,…

As the COVID-19 crisis continues, CDFIs are best positioned to help small minority and women-owned businesses survive and recover from the pandemic’s economic…

On January 12, Starbucks announced new initiatives as part of its long-standing commitment to use its scale and platform to positively impact the communities…

As America reckons with a Titanic scale economic impact from COVID-19, we can’t afford to wait for relief for small businesses that…

Did you know that 305 federal financial assistance programs relied on U.S. Census data to allocate $1.5 trillion in funding nationwide during FY 2017? This includes $1.2…

Updated January 7, 2021 On December 22, Congress passed a massive $900 billion FY2021 Omnibus Appropriations and COVID-19 Relief Bill that included historic…

In early December, The Aspen Institute and the Microfinance Impact Collaborative announced the creation of the Entrepreneur Backed Assets (EBA) Fund, which will…