Rural Business Investment Company Webinar
The Rural Business Investment Company (RBIC) is hosting a complimentary webinar on Thursday, October 15, 2015
3 - 4:15 p.m. ET, inviting participants to get an insiders view of the program.
Category CDVCA Ventures Blog
Pacific Community Ventures Hires New CEO
On Tuesday October 6th, Pacific Community Ventures sent out an introductory letter from their new CEO. Mary Jo Cook joins Pacific Joint Ventures from Fair Trade USA. A Mission driven leader with 25 years of experience in strategy development for…
Bridges ventures releases investigative report on B corps
More than 1400 companies around the world are already certified B corps. This month, as the B Corp movement officially hit the UK, the Bridges Ventures released a paper to provide an investors perspective on the growing movement. Entitled “To…
Young firms drive job creation
On September 14th, the Kauffman Foundation published a report titled “The Importance of Young Firms for Economic Growth”, showing that young and growing companies have accounted for nearly all net new job creation in the economy in the eight years…
Impact investment guide for small foundations
For small staffed foundations, entering the impact investment field presents a unique set of challenges. To address these challenges Arabella advisors put together “Essentials of Impact Investing: A Guide for Small-Staffed Foundations”. Published on September 9, 2015, the guide offers…
Report maps out global opportunities for impact investment
On June 18th 2015, wealth insight published Insight Report: “Impact Investments 2015 – Global Opportunities”. By identifying product and service offering by banks in North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, the Middle East, and Africa, the report aims to provide…
Capria business accelerator boosts new impact fund managers
A new Seattle-based global business accelerator called Capria seeks to provide investment support and help for new fund managers backing early-stage startups. Offering everything from capital, technical know-how, and connections to other fund managers, the accelerator takes on a longer-term…
CDFI Fund names winners of FY 2015 program awards
Yesterday the CDFI Fund announced the winners of the FY 2015 Program award. Chosen from a pool of 356 eligible applicants, the 152 recipients were awarded a total of $160 million. Divided into two categories, Financial Assistance and Technical Assistance,…
Small Impact Investment Funds Outperform Conventional Funds of the Same Size
On June 25, 2015, Cambridge Associates and the Global Impact Investing Network (GIIN) published a report titled “Introducing the Impact Investing Benchmark.” This report contains findings from the first comprehensive analysis of the financial performance of market rate private equity…
Reintroduction of Small Business Access to Capital Act .
Today, July 30, 2015, Senators Stabenow, Shaheen, and Peters are reintroducing the Small Business Access to Capital Act of 2015 to provide another $1.5 billion in funding for the State Small Business Credit Initiative.