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Mission Driven Finance: Bridging Capital Gaps for Local Economies
Investing in Impact Podcast
Caring for Tomorrow: A Guide to Investing in the Care Economy
Women of the World Endowment + Tesser Capital Management
Health Insurance Philanthropies Are Getting into the Impact Investing Game
Inside Philanthropy
Opinion: What’s keeping San Diego from affordable housing?
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Expanding Child Care with Investments in Innovative Solutions
The Annie E. Casey Foundation
Supporting, disrupting and innovating on America’s child care solutions
Every Child Thrives by W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Real Estate's Role in Child Care
Thesis Driven
Elevance Health to back small businesses on health equity
Healthcare Finance
Homeownership for the “Missing Middle”
Alliance Healthcare Foundation
Former Street Vendor Becomes New Franchise Owner Through Innovative Funding Partnership
The Association of Financial Development Corporations
Michael Smolens: San Diego developer seeks to fill gap in middle-income housing
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Southern California food advocates awarded a $3 million seed grant from USDA to build a healthy food financing collaborative.
Los Angeles Food Policy Council
Where's My Village?
KPBS
Ownership Economy funds database
ImpactAlpha
Employee ownership: Primed to scale
New Private Markets
Inequality is on the agenda: what now?
New Private Markets
Alternative Ownership Enterprises Report
Transform Finance
Innovation | Points of Progress | For safer drinking water, the ingenuity of simple solutions
The Christian Science Monitor
From the Ground Up: Improving Child Care and Early Learning Facilities
Bipartisan Policy Center
Fibers Fund Announces First 5 Grants
Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems Funders
Everytable wins $8M investment to help hourly workers become operators
Restaurant Business
Melvin Lindsey, Louie Nguyen Join CHCF Board
California Health Care Foundation
Quality Jobs Count: Three Key Investment Factors to Advance Economic Equity
The Annie E. Casey Foundation / Mission Investors Exchange
How Universal Transitional Kindergarten Is Stressing Our Childcare System
Voice of San Diego
What San Diego says about California
CalMatters
Staff of life: Talking with Bellegarde Bakery’s new worker-owners
Uptown Messenger
Once a small business lands a contract, this San Diego lender helps them finish the job
The San Diego Union-Tribune
Investment Group, Nonprofit Team to Boost Small Businesses
San Diego Business Journal
Connecting Community With Capital
San Diego Business Journal
Faith-based investing can have meaning only in practice
Pioneers Post
The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Balancing purpose and profit: Why companies are seeking B Corporation status
The San Diego Union-Tribune
190 units of affordable housing coming to El Cajon Blvd.
San Diego Downtown News
Opinion: Here’s how we can help middle-income families in San Diego buy homes
The San Diego Union-Tribune
How entrepreneurs and investors are reshaping the ‘care’ economy
The San Diego Union-Tribune
St. Louis nonprofit WEPOWER launches $1.5M fund to back Black, Latino entrepreneurs
St. Louis Business Journal
Expanded Affordable Housing Project Planned
San Diego Business Journal
Pharma Co. Receives Funds, Prepares for Scale: Technology Helps Drug Makers Save Money and Time
San Diego Business Journal
Let’s Harness the BLM Movement to Close Racial Wealth Gaps
U.S. News & World Report
How Black-owned businesses can make the most out of the Biden infrastructure plan
The Brookings Institution
How to spot (and ward off) an impact vampire
B The Change
Advocates launch $1 million fund to keep asylum seekers out of immigration detention centers
The San Diego Union-Tribune
New financing model unlocks millions to build affordable homes
The San Diego Foundation
Convergence and collaboration
Calvert Impact Capital
Firm's impact investing puts community in lending equation
San Diego Business Journal
Mission Driven Finance invests in social good
Del Mar Times