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The Violence of Market Rate Returns
Delta Fund
CRF USA 2024 Annual Report
Community Reinvestment Fund, USA
Treasury awards $8.6M to tribes through SSBCI program
Tribal Business News
How can the nation expand child care options?
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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
Everytable wins $8M investment to help hourly workers become operators
Melvin Lindsey, Louie Nguyen Join CHCF Board
Quality Jobs Count: Three Key Investment Factors to Advance Economic Equity
How Universal Transitional Kindergarten Is Stressing Our Childcare System
What San Diego says about California
Staff of life: Talking with Bellegarde Bakery’s new worker-owners
Once a small business lands a contract, this San Diego lender helps them finish the job
Investment Group, Nonprofit Team to Boost Small Businesses
Connecting Community With Capital
Faith-based investing can have meaning only in practice
The Case for Investing in Employee Ownership
Balancing purpose and profit: Why companies are seeking B Corporation status
190 units of affordable housing coming to El Cajon Blvd.
Opinion: Here’s how we can help middle-income families in San Diego buy homes
How entrepreneurs and investors are reshaping the ‘care’ economy
St. Louis nonprofit WEPOWER launches $1.5M fund to back Black, Latino entrepreneurs
Expanded Affordable Housing Project Planned
Pharma Co. Receives Funds, Prepares for Scale: Technology Helps Drug Makers Save Money and Time
Let’s Harness the BLM Movement to Close Racial Wealth Gaps
How Black-owned businesses can make the most out of the Biden infrastructure plan
How to spot (and ward off) an impact vampire
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