Oakland, Ca. is a vibrant place, a reflection of the multicultural communities within its borders. However, Oakland also experiences poverty, limited social services, and crime, which hold its communities back – particularly communities of color – from achieving their full potential. Over the past several years, Oakland has seen an influx of residents as the […]
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A Bold Gamble for Building Community Wealth and Assets: A Q&A with Unity Council on the Successes and Lessons Learned from Fruitvale Transit Village
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2020 Annual Report Letter: Combating the Other Pandemic – Flattening the Curve for Social Justice
By Ellis Carr, President and CEO of Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance Last year I opened up my Annual Report letter with a reference to COVID-19. While we were still grasping the seriousness of the situation, we could never have realized the extent to which the pandemic would dominate almost every facet […]
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New Board Members and Leadership Milestones for Our New Enterprise with CDC Small Business Finance
Earlier this year, we announced the formation of an exciting new enterprise uniting Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance under a single national strategy and leadership team. Our vision is bold – to reimagine the traditional tools and approaches that have failed to address systemic issues of inequality and the widening racial wealth […]
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How Capital Impact and Our Partners Are Catalyzing Finance for Racial Equity
You can also find this content on the Nonprofit Finance Fund website. Capital Impact Partners and Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) are decades-old Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) with long-standing commitments to supporting disinvested communities. In recent years, both organizations have explicitly recognized the opportunity to expand their impact by addressing structural racism, both internally and […]
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Employee Ownership: The Power of the Cooperative Model to Build Opportunity and Wealth for Worker-Owners and Their Communities
By Alison Powers, Cooperative & Community Initiatives Manager Co-ops are having a moment. That is to say that cooperatives, which have existed for generations, are currently being recognized for their ability to build economic power for the workers who own them. This point has become more underscored as communities have been touched by the instability […]
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Where We Go from Here: Opportunities for CDFIs to Center Communities and Drive Capital for Holistic Community Development
This blog also appears on the Nonprofit Finance Fund website. You can read it here. Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) were founded as part of the civil rights movement, to make access to capital more equitable for communities living with low incomes, often communities of color. However, despite the work of this part of the […]
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Accountability for George Floyd is Just the Start of Our Fight for Justice for All
By Ellis Carr, President and CEO, Capital Impact Partners, and CEO, CDC Small Business Finance On Wednesday, I woke up still processing the range of emotions I have felt since watching the jury deliver its verdict in the murder of George Floyd.
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Philanthropy for Outsized Impact: The Power of Program-Related Investments
This blog also appears on the Engage R + D blog. You can find it here. How can foundation dollars be more powerful in a time of crisis? As COVID-19 continues to disproportionately impact communities that have long experienced economic disinvestment, many are asking how to leverage philanthropic funding differently for more immediate impact and […]
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Capital Impact and CDC Small Business Finance Align Operations Under One CEO to Transform How Capital Flows into Disinvested Communities (Blog)
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