Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) were born out of the civil rights movement to ensure that nonprofits and businesses — particularly those in communities of color and communities with lower incomes — have equitable access to loans. Yet, CDFIs are…
By Ellis Carr, President & CEO As Capital Impact’s new CEO, I am incredibly excited to take this opportunity to both look back at 2015 and to expound on our new five-year vision to 2020. Over the past year, we continued to…
Building Better Nursing Homes April 2015 When Barry Berman, who had run assisted living and nursing complexes for 23 years, sought to build a better nursing facility for his own mother, he turned to our Green House Project model for…
Op-Ed: CDFIs have untapped potential as game changers for minority-owned businesses 2020 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…
Momentus Securities: Collateralizing small business loans to use institutional capital to create local impact 2023 Momentus Securities, part of the Momentus Capital branded family of organizations, was featured in this article by ImpactAlpha, a news outlet focusing on impact investing…
How CDFIs Expand Economic Opportunities in Underserved Communities August 2017 More than Money, a podcast that explores how “we can use our values to inform how we engage with our work and invest our wealth,” recently sat down with Capital…
Since COVID-19 began, times have been incredibly trying for many across the country. Schools and teachers have been particularly hard-hit, having to figure out what education looks like in this new reality. It has been grueling, the hours have been…
In the third video of our CEO Conversations video series featuring CDC Small Business Finance CEO Kurt Chillcot and Capital Impact Partners CEO, Ellis Carr, we examine the problems that the alliance aims to solve.
In the third video of our CEO Conversations video series featuring CDC Small Business Finance CEO Kurt Chillcot and Capital Impact Partners CEO, Ellis Carr, we examine the problems that the alliance aims to solve.
Bankruptcy, bailouts and blight may have put Detroit in recent news, but a wave of development in its New Center area is giving the city another reason to make headlines. On any given day and in all types of weather,…
