COVID-19 - Accion Opportunity Fund

COVID-19 Relief Package will Help Small Businesses

After months of delays, Congress’s passage today of a $900 billion COVID-19 relief package is an important step in the right direction to help struggling small businesses. We’re happy to see the bipartisan package include $12 billion for Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) and Minority Development Institutions—lenders that have relationships with the underbanked small businesses…

December 22, 2020

How to Negotiate With Creditors for Small Business Owners

While the economy recovers from COVID-19, some business owners are struggling to make debt payments on time. Here’s how to negotiate with creditors.

December 16, 2020

Adapting Your Small Business Supply Chain in Response to COVID-19

Having interruptions in your small business supply chain due to lockdown rules and the COVID-19 shutdown? Here’s how to protect your business.

July 17, 2020

Andy Cohen Hosts Small Business Relief Benefit

On May 28, 2020, Andy Cohen of Watch Happens Live with Andy Cohen hosted Eat. Drink. Give., benefiting America’s small businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

May 29, 2020

Alicia Villanueva, Luz Urrutia, and Andy Cohen at Eat. Drink. Give.

Nonprofit small business lender prepares COVID response

Many Opportunity Fund small business clients like Tamales Los Mayas, which sells thousands of tamales at Golden State Warriors games, to a local school district and at most of the Bay Area’s biggest tech companies, will require support as they suffer a drop in consumer demand.

March 20, 2020