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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.

The nation’s leading small business experts, including our very own CEO Luz Urrutia, joined forces to perform the most comprehensive analysis of small business policy ever undertaken in the US and with it, develop a 5-point plan for saving small businesses and rebuilding our Main Streets.

This September, we said farewell to Amanda “Andie” Byrd as an esteemed member of Opportunity Fund’s Southern California Regional Board.  With her Board term coming to a close, we celebrate her many contributions to furthering our work of driving economic mobility and access to capital for determined entrepreneurs.

Lata Krishnan, member of Accion Opportunity Fund’s Leadership Council, reflects on the importance of supporting education and economic empowerment, the role of philanthropy in advancing a more just world, and her hopes for the new Women of Opportunity initiative.  

As we mark the mid-year point of a turbulent 2020, we want to recognize that we have accomplished amazing things with the help of some wonderful people! Opportunity Fund’s Southern California Regional Board has played a vital role in expanding the organization’s reach into a new market since June 2015 and making this region the…