Strengthening Latino Business Ecosystems summarizes the rich knowledge shared and outlines the recommendations stemming from those conversations to inform the work of those supporting our nation’s Latino entrepreneurs and small business owners.

Although the pandemic has taken a steep toll on small firms, there are also signs of resilience and optimism.

Small businesses are critical to our economy, and they deserve the same basic standards of transparency and fairness that consumers now have.

Digitization is transforming commerce. How can small businesses—which are critical to employment around the globe—take advantage of this shift?

Funding will advance an emerging secondary market for community-based microlending for small businesses, filling a vital role in creating opportunity and equity in low-income communities.

Although business ownership may not be the primary way that most individuals and families build wealth in the United States, in any capitalist economy it’s a route that cannot be ignored.

Microlending fills a vital role in creating opportunity and equity in low-income communities, and in meeting demand for loans among entrepreneurs who have face barriers accessing credit: people of color and women.

How can the financial system convert the value and promise of entrepreneurship into an asset?

On February 25, Business Ownership Initiative Director Joyce Klein participated in a webinar hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta,