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Program to help real estate developers expands to Dallas
2022
The initiative, backed by JPMorgan Chase and Charles Schwab Bank, will connect participants to training, networking opportunities and pathways to funding.
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The Most Transformative Fintech Merger That You Never Heard About
2021
Forbes Magazine sat down with Ellis Carr, president and CEO of Capital Impact Partners, and CEO of CDC Small Business Finance, to discuss how this exciting new enterprise is working to address lack of investment in communities. The two also talked about Ellis’ vision for using technology to help scale this work nationally.
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New Lending Industry Alliance to Bolster Communities
With a focus on economic empowerment, wealth creation, and connecting institutional capital to communities, Capital Impact Partners’ CEO Ellis Carr describes how the organization’s new alliance with CDC Small Business Finance is working to disrupt the financial sector to deliver a breadth of products and services under a focused strategy.
Op-Ed: CDFIs have untapped potential as game changers for small businesses
In this op-ed, Tim Ferguson, founder and chairman of Next Street, makes the case for how CDFIs can help small business entrepreneurs access the capital they need to build and expand their businesses. He cites the alliance between Capital Impact and CDC Small Business Finance as a promising example for how this can be accomplished in the coming years.
Opinion: Revitalization critical to Detroit’s future
“We must think holistically about our approach to community and economic development to achieve sustainable change,” notes CEO Ellis Carr in this Op-Ed about how the Alliance is focusing its efforts to build strong communities that are intentional, innovative, and scalable, for all Detroiters.
Natalie Gunn Honored in Washington Business Journal’s Women Who Mean Business
2020
In 2020, Capital Impact’s CFO Natalie Gunn was named to the Washington Business Journal’s 2020 list of Women Who Mean Business. This profile piece looks at Natalie’s work at Capital Impact Partners to create strong communities nationwide. Natalie stated in the article that our work is about raising the right type of capital, “so that we can then have a strong capital base to be able to provide the type of investment to the communities we serve that they actually need.”
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Impact investing seeks to address racial inequality
With $4 million in backing from JPMorgan Chase, Capital Impact Partners’ alliance with CDC Small Business Finance made international news, including the Financial Standard in Australia. The alliance will focus on creating growth in communities by backing small businesses and key social services.
Black-owned firm leads redevelopment of historic row homes in Hubbard Farms
Detroit natives W. Emery Matthews and Stan Edwards have long understood the corrosive impact of vacant buildings on their neighborhoods. That is why Capital Impact was proud to support the efforts of their real estate firm to rehab an 1800s building into a new affordable housing building as part of a targeted neighborhood development plan developed with the community.
$12.5 million fund aims to help spur real estate development in Detroit
In an effort to increase support for community-rooted real estate developers spearheading rehabilitation or new construction of mixed-use, multifamily housing projects in Detroit, Capital Impact Partners today launched a $12.5 million Detroit Loan Fund. The fund is a new tool for Capital Impact’s long-time commitment to development and growth in Detroit.
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