CDFI Opportunity Fund Helping Smallest, Most Vulnerable Businesses Get PPP Loans
Opportunity Fund, the nation’s leading nonprofit small business lender focusing on minority, women and immigrant-owned businesses, making $16,000 average PPP loans, helping the smallest businesses weather the COVID-19 crisis
Read StoryAndy Cohen to Host Opportunity Fund’s Massive Online Cocktail and Dinner Party to Benefit Small Business Relief
Andy Cohen, host of Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen, will emcee ‘Eat. Drink. Give.,’ the internet's largest cocktail and dinner party supporting small business relief on May 28; funds raised support Opportunity Fund’s Small Business Relief Fund
Read StoryBuilding on a legacy of lifting up small businesses
As the world copes with the economic impact of COVID-19, Wells Fargo continues to invest in community organizations that offer U.S. small businesses access to capital and financial education.
Read StoryWomen & Business in the Era of Covid-19 | #BWTownHall Live
Women-owned small businesses are among those facing even more challenges during this crisis. As reports and data show, the uneven - and somewhat disorganized - disbursement of federal relief funds have more adversely affected these businesses. That is one factor that could slow down or even reverse the rise in recent years in the number of women-owned businesses -- in 2019, they made up 42% of all businesses, according to American Express. Our Bloomberg Businessweek Town Hall brings together a panel of successful women small business owners and advocates, to talk about their own experiences and offer solutions about how to survive.
Read StoryHigh-powered Bay Area group aims to outdo DC in coronavirus help for small business
Read StoryLocal organization forms to provide loans to Bay Area minority-owned small businesses
Many small businesses were shut out from the federal government's Paycheck Protection Program that was intended to help them stay afloat during the coronavirus pandemic. Now a local organization is focused on providing loans for small Bay Area businesses, especially those with minority owners.
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