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As small businesses struggle to access affordable capital, the nation’s leading nonprofit lender and tech-driven payroll and HR provider, Gusto, join forces to keep capital flowing to Main Street businesses.

Guest post written by Natasha Case, Co-founder and CEO of Coolhaus, former client and board member of AOF.

Across the nation, the number of Latinx entrepreneurs continues to grow significantly faster than the overall U.S. average. During the past decade, the number of Latinx business owners grew 34%, compared to 1% for all small business owners in the U.S.

Accion Opportunity Fund Receives $55 Million New Markets Tax Credit Allocation to Continue Investment in Nonprofit Community Facilities.

Berde brings 25 years of human resources and financial services experience to Accion Opportunity Fund

A little over a year ago, protests broke out all over the world after the murder of George Floyd. What started as outrage over one man’s death exploded into an international call for accountability, racial justice, and an end to police brutality.

Accion Opportunity Fund responded to the Department of Treasury’s request for comment regarding implementation of the State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI)

Nurturing, patient, empathetic, driven, commanding, responsible, and experienced at juggling a million things at once: All the qualities that make a successful parent also make a successful entrepreneurial mindset. Unfortunately, the pandemic has highlighted and exacerbated the problems parents who are entrepreneurs face. With childcare unavailable or uncertain, their family’s income threatened, and the health…

American Express will provide a $40 million investment to Accion Opportunity Fund, representing the nonprofit’s largest investment to date. Loans from Accion Opportunity Fund offer much-needed capital to historically underfunded small business owners, including people of color, women and immigrants.

In her first return to Oakland since elected, Vice President Harris visits an Accion Opportunity Fund client and highlights critical role of Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) in COVID Recovery.