Eric Weaver on KPFA radio: Community Reinvestment Act
Opportunity Fund founder Eric Weaver was on KPFA radio discussing the Community Reinvestment Act.
Read StoryLuz Urrutia’s Dedication to Opportunity
When Luz Urrutia speaks, you listen. Indeed, she’s as direct, poised and knowledgeable as CEOs come — and her delightfully distinctive voice could easily command any room — but it’s her passion that pulls you in like a vortex. It comes from a deep understanding of, and shared experience with, the communities she’s catapulting toward financial success.
Read Story‘Buyer Beware’ Is No Way To Fund A Small Business
Two trends are coalescing in ways that threaten the nation's small businesses, particularly the underrepresented women, minorities, veterans and immigrants for whom entrepreneurship represents both a chance at personal achievement and a way to climb the economic ladder.
Read StoryImmigrant lands contract to sell tamales at Warriors’ new basketball arena
Alicia Villanueva started selling tamales door to door, now this Mexican immigrant has hit a major milestone with Opportunity Funded ‘Alicia's Tamales Los Mayas’. She signed a contract to sell tamales at the Golden State Warriors’ new arena in San Francisco. Luis Megid shares her story.
Read StoryOpportunity Fund Announces Launch of Largest National Loan Fund for the Growth of Latino-owned Small Businesses in Partnership with NALCAB and Wells Fargo
The Wells Fargo Foundation has made a historic $10 million grant to NALCAB - National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders and select partners including Opportunity Fund, to support growth-oriented lending to minority-owned businesses nationwide through a network of Latino-led nonprofit business lenders. The new Acceso Loan Fund is designed to help diverse entrepreneurs scale to a greater size, expanding their revenue, impact on the economy and ability to provide jobs.
Read StoryCommunity Opportunity
September 2019 — Access to capital and opportunity is a critical challenge for many low- and moderate-income groups in the US, as Deutsche Bank’s Community Development Finance Group explains to Neil Jensen.
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