event recap

Trading at the Bay, April 30, 2025

Trading at the Bay, April 30, 2025

Join us on Wednesday, April 30, at the Intertribal Friendship House in Oakland, CA, for a day of connection and knowledge sharing. The day includes: ✨ Direct access to capital providers ✨ How to get the right type of funding for your business ✨ Connecting with other Native entrepreneurs over breakfast and lunch (catered by Wahpepah’s Kitchen).

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Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum

Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum

Mission Driven Finance® Co-founder and Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan spoke on a panel at the Milken Institute 2025 Finance Forum with Samantha Berg (Next Street), Kim Folsom (Founders First Capital Partners), and Shaolee Sen (JPMorganChase)—moderated by Troy Duffie—about meeting small business owners where they are at, providing right-sized support at the right time.

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Asset Funders Network webinar: Investing in Home-Based Childcare Entrepreneurs to Stabilize Their Businesses, Expand Childcare, and Build Wealth Through Homeownership

Asset Funders Network webinar: Investing in Home-Based Childcare Entrepreneurs to Stabilize Their Businesses, Expand Childcare, and Build Wealth Through Homeownership

Asset Funders Network held a webinar about innovative work happening to address asset building for home-based childcare entrepreneurs. The panel explored main barriers these entrepreneurs are facing; ways groups are attempting to remove those barriers; policy opportunities to create systemic change; and ways philanthropy can be supportive.

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Supporting diverse emerging fund managers

Supporting diverse emerging fund managers

Lauren Grattan spoke on an Impact Finance Center and Boston Impact Initiative panel on how backbone organizations like Common Future and Mission Driven Finance are driving diversity, equity, and inclusion in the world of emerging managers.

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Impact(ed) podcast: Foundations with Essma Bengabsia

Impact(ed) podcast: Foundations with Essma Bengabsia

Essma Bengabsia (The Annie E. Casey Foundation) talks about the untapped power and potential of philanthropy’s approach to investing, as well as how her community and identities have led her to be an impact investor at a $3 billion foundation.

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Collaboration to Catalyze Impact

Collaboration to Catalyze Impact

Impact Charitable and Mission Driven Finance discussed how charitable capital can accelerate impact for community-rooted funds. See how this partnership can make capital more accessible.

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Letters from Lauren: May 2023

Letters from Lauren: May 2023

We wrote this North Star into the company theory of change: “Financial systems that perpetuate poverty are flipped to systems that eradicate it.” Systems change sounds really cool, but admittedly can be hard to picture. It is thrilling to see it coming into clearer focus, hopefully for you too.

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