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Blog Archives: November 2020

Notes from the Annual Opportunity Finance Network Conference: “Investing in Climate Solutions for the Environment and the Economy”

November 30, 2020
Keith Bisson , Coastal Enterprises, Inc.
I had the honor to represent Coastal Enterprises (CEI) on the panel “Investing in Climate Solutions for the Environment and the Economy” at the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN) Conference, November 12, 2020. The other panelists were Trenton Allen, Managing Director and CEO, Sustainable Capital Advisors; and Cathie Mahon, President and CEO, Inclusiv, the federation of community development credit unions. Dana Lanza, CEO, Confluence Philanthropy joined us as moderator. OFN is the national association of Community Development Financial ...

Want Outsized Impact? Invest in Small Black-Led CDFIs

November 24, 2020
Catherine Berman, CNote and Donna Gambrell, Appalachian Community Capital
Now more than ever, foundations, philanthropic organizations and banks are talking about economic, racial and social justice. Considering that inequity is baked into our institutional practices and norms, it’s a welcome shift in the conversation. However, to borrow the words of Rodney Foxwell and Antony Bugg-Levine, we need to stop making excuses about why it’s hard to fund Black-led organizations. Instead, we need to invest in them more. In the finance world, that means institutional philanthropy needs to fund Black-led Community ...

Trailblazer Feature: Investing for Equity

November 04, 2020
Patricia Farrar-Rivas, Veris Wealth Partners
I grew up the daughter of an Air Force officer and a homemaker. We did not have a lot of money, but as a military family our housing and healthcare and other essential needs were all taken care of. When my parents divorced, my mother supported us by cleaning houses. She put all she received in the settlement towards buying a house. I would remember that years later as I began to build my own wealth and made personal home ownership my first financial goal. I never made much money in my early career in nonprofits, but I was devoted to my ...

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