By Lauren Counts, Senior Director, Strategy, Innovation, and Impact Management Mission-driven organizations face down some of the world’s biggest challenges – systemic poverty, inequality, and racial inequity, to name a few – as a matter of business practice. Certainly these…
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,…
Milestone achieved as part of third quarter lending efforts to increase housing, charter school and community health center access Arlington, VA (October 8, 2014) – Capital Impact Partners announced today that its community development financing work topped the two billion…
Since 1982, this funding has helped provide access to fundamental social services so that all communities have a greater opportunity to thrive.
By Will Robison, Senior Loan Officer As wildfires burned through California’s Napa and Sonoma Counties in late 2017, Sandy Cesario was forced to evacuate her home and all she knew. Like many of the 5,000 residents of her small Calistoga town,…
Working as an Uber driver for the past eight years, Martin was hoping to make a better life for his family when he moved to the United States in 1991. As costs rose and pay decreased, he began to question whether he could continue on this path. That was when Martin and his fellow drivers began exploring the power of forming a cooperative and using their numbers to take control of their future.
We are excited to announce that Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance are formally coming together to launch a transformative new enterprise and innovate how capital and investments flow into historically disinvested communities to advance economic empowerment and…
Investors can earn a financial, as well as a social, return on their investments Arlington, VA (October 11, 2017) — Capital Impact Partners, a non-profit corporation, certified by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund as a Community Development…
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…
Locally driven businesses like childcare and home health care can promote ownership and build long-term wealth in communities where they operate Arlington, VA (September 11, 2018)—According to a new report, succession planning for small businesses when owners near retirement is critical…
