Program is sponsored by a grant from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund and will support real estate developers of color focused on bringing more affordable housing to the Washington metropolitan region.
April 28, 2022 (Arlington, VA) – Today, Capital Impact Partners announced the inaugural class of its Housing Equity Accelerator Fellowship. The group consists of 15 of the region’s emerging real estate developers of color.
The goals of this new program, funded by a grant of more than $5 million from the Amazon Housing Equity Fund, include increasing the number of real estate developers of color in an industry where they are under-represented, and helping to grow the affordable housing stock in this region.
Dallas becomes the fourth region for Capital Impact Partners’ Equitable Development Initiative, which helps developers of color overcome systemic issues and lead affordable real estate projects
April 7, 2022 (Dallas, TX/Arlington, VA) – A new program will break down the barriers for real estate developers of color in the Dallas area, helping them be more involved in the region’s booming real estate market – and, in turn, to create more affordable housing.
The Equitable Development Initiative is led by Capital Impact Partners and has trained nearly 200 developers of color since 2018 in three major metropolitan areas. The Dallas region will become the fourth.Â
Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance President and CEO Ellis Carr joined Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States of America, for Announcement at Howard University in Washington, D.C.
March 30, 2022 (Arlington, VA) – Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance are proud to stand alongside the Greater Washington Partnership and the Biden-Harris Administration for two announcements made Wednesday that will aid small businesses and communities of color.
The Greater Washington Partnership announced that it plans to direct $4.7 billion over the next five years toward supporting underrepresented communities and Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) in the Washington, D.C. metro region.
Nine Awardees are Locally Owned Food Businesses in Wards 5, 7, and 8
Arlington, VA (March 9, 2022) – While Washington, DC has a vibrant food and restaurant community, food businesses owned by people of color still struggle to participate due to the lack of opportunities to access capital. In an effort to build a more equitable food ecosystem, the Nourish DC Collaborative – in partnership with DC Mayor Muriel Bowser – announced its first round of grants – totaling $400,000 – to support locally owned food businesses, especially in neighborhoods underserved by grocery stores and other food businesses. The nine awardees are local BIPOC-owned food businesses in Wards 5, 7, and 8 that are providing healthy, affordable, and culturally appropriate food for DC residents. Seven of the awardees are women-owned businesses.
Amazon commits more than $5 million to new program to grow opportunities for real estate diverse developersin Arlington, Virginia and the broader Washington, D.C. Metropolitan region
Arlington, VA (December 8, 2021) – Capital Impact Partners today announced a grant of more than $5 million from Amazon to launch an initiative focused on accelerating new opportunities for emerging real estate diverse developers while also increasing affordable and workforce housing across Arlington, Virginia and the greater Washington, D.C. metropolitan region. This funding is the most recent commitment from the more than $2 billion Amazon Housing Equity Fund, which was established to preserve and create over 20,000 affordable homes in Amazon’s hometown communities–the Puget Sound region of Washington state, the Arlington, Virginia region, and Nashville, Tennessee.
Organizations will work with local partners to help small business owners of color recover and emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic
Arlington, VA | San Francisco, CA | San Diego, CA (November 30, 2021) – Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance announced a $1.5 million grant from Wells Fargo to launch an initiative focused on providing targeted business training services to small real estate developers and entrepreneurs of color. The grant will also help accelerate re-development efforts in D.C. and the Delta through a focus on small real estate development businesses and other industries that bring needed housing, amenities and jobs. The funding is made possible through Wells Fargo’s Open for Business Fund, a roughly $420 million small business recovery effort across the U.S to help small business owners recover and emerge from the pandemic even stronger and more resilient.
(DETROIT, MI/ARLINGTON, VA – October 21, 2021)Capital Impact Partners, a mission-driven Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), is celebrating 10 years of working with Detroit. The company also marked a milestone of $300 million in investments to expand economic, social and racial justice for underestimated communities through an inclusive growth strategy.
This year’s award supported five organizations, including Collective Remake, Cooperation Humboldt, Co-op Cincy, Co-op Dayton, and Custom Collaborative
Arlington, VA (September 29, 2021) – In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with increased visibility of racial violence and inequity, cooperatives have demonstrated their continued ability to promote resiliency and growth toward shared prosperity for communities.Â
The seventh annual Capital Impact Partners Co-op Innovation Award – which aims to increase co-op development in communities with low incomes and/or communities of color – focused on supporting organizations that are expanding education about the cooperative model in the face of the twin pandemics of COVID and racial injustice.
Innovative Program Provides Critical Training to Help Diverse Developers Overcome Systemic Issues and Spearhead Affordable Real Estate Projects
September 22, 2021 (Oakland, CA/Arlington, VA) – While there is a critical need to address the San Francisco Bay Area’s housing crisis in a way that supports racial and economic inclusion, developers who identify as racial or ethnic minorities are severely underrepresented in a market dominated by large global and national firms. In an effort to help solve this crisis, Capital Impact Partners announced the expansion of its Equitable Development Initiative (EDI) into the region to help local diverse real estate developers who represent the region’s diversity take a leadership role in shaping the development landscape within the local context. These developers have historically faced significant barriers to entering the real estate industry due to the lack of access to capital, equity, and experience resulting from generations of structural racism and disinvestment.
Award Will Spur Projects that Increase Access to Social Services in Disinvested Communities
Arlington, VA (September 1, 2021) — The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) has awarded Capital Impact Partners a $60 million New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) allocation. This award helps advance Capital Impact’s mission to increase access to critical social services in disinvested communities, spur economic development and wealth creation, and create jobs by incentivizing private sector investors to partner in its community financing efforts.
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