Forging Fairness: Pathways Panel Discussion

How Community-Based Lenders are Centering Both Inclusion and Manufacturing to Promote Equity

Introduction

In this program, we heard from capital practitioners that are part of the Pathways to Patient Capital program, in an illuminating webinar about the different kinds of flexible capital they’re deploying to help businesses overcome so much uncertainty in this time of COVID.

Speakers

Victor Rubin | PolicyLink, Pathways Advisory Board (Moderator)

Moriah Heaney | Mountain Bizworks

Kareen Boncales | Mountain Bizworks

Jeremiah Robinson | Mountain Bizworks

Nia Evans | Boston Ujima Project

Katie Johnson | Bridgeway Capital

Chris Brown, PRC

Laura Wolf-Powers | Hunter College

Related Resource

Forging Fairness

May 2020

Report

This report profiles successful or promising approaches to helping entrepreneurs of color—including makers and manufacturers—get access to the capital and know-how they need to realize their business ideas and plans at scale.

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