Inclusive Capital for Manufacturers
Advancing Racial Equity and Community Wealth Building through a Sector-Based Approach to Capital Access
This paper identifies innovations that capital providers and policymakers could and should implement within the manufacturing sector to spark wealth-building among entrepreneurs and communities of color. Produced in partnership with Inclusive Capital Collective, it highlights inventive Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color manufacturers and the real challenges and unique possibilities before them. It shows that the sector can provide living-income jobs, offer ownership opportunities, and drive economic activity with other local industries that fuels inclusive place-based development, but only if these BIPOC manufacturers, and others like them, receive the support they so richly deserve after centuries of marginalization.