Impact Lenders Podcast
- Autor: Vários
- Narrador: Vários
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- Duração: 15:50:06
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Sinopse
The Podcast for People & Institutions Using Lending for Good
Episódios
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EPISODE 27 – THE SOAR FUND: SPURRING SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH IN THE SOUTH
08/07/2021 Duração: 35minCDFIs are coming together at an unprecedented pace to work collaboratively and solve problems at scale. One example is the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund.
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EPISODE 27 – THE SOAR FUND: SPURRING SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH IN THE SOUTH
08/07/2021 Duração: 35minCDFIs are coming together at an unprecedented pace to work collaboratively and solve problems at scale. One example is the Southern Opportunity and Resilience (SOAR) Fund.
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EPISODE 26 – LEVERAGING THE POWER OF CDFIS AND GOVERNMENT RESOURCES TO CATALYZE SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
20/05/2021 Duração: 40minHigh Impact President Peter Schaeffing has a candid conversation with Leah Fremouw, SVP & Director of Community Innovation at Virginia Community Capital (VCC) and Andrea Longton, C.F.A., Founder and Author-Administrator of The Social Justice Investor™
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EPISODE 26 – LEVERAGING THE POWER OF CDFIS AND GOVERNMENT RESOURCES TO CATALYZE SMALL BUSINESS GROWTH
20/05/2021 Duração: 40minHigh Impact President Peter Schaeffing has a candid conversation with Leah Fremouw, SVP & Director of Community Innovation at Virginia Community Capital (VCC) and Andrea Longton, C.F.A., Founder and Author-Administrator of The Social Justice Investor™
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EPISODE 25 – CDFIS BRIDGE FINANCIAL GAPS FOR VETERAN ENTREPRENEURS
21/04/2021 Duração: 35minVeterans have unique challenges and opportunities when it comes to entrepreneurship and securing business loans. On the one hand, the military provides leadership and strategic training, but deployment and frequent relocations can interfere.
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EPISODE 25 – CDFIS BRIDGE FINANCIAL GAPS FOR VETERAN ENTREPRENEURS
21/04/2021 Duração: 35minVeterans have unique challenges and opportunities when it comes to entrepreneurship and securing business loans. On the one hand, the military provides leadership and strategic training, but deployment and frequent relocations can interfere.
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EPISODE 24 – BUILDING A HIGH GROWTH CDFI
03/11/2020 Duração: 44minImpact lenders tackle huge problems–the affordable housing crisis, structural racism, predatory lending, and many more. Yet impact lenders are typically locked out of the kinds of growth capital that allow for-profit ventures to quickly scale. Capital Good Fund, a nonprofit loan fund that provides ethical payday loans, energy efficiency loans, and car loans, has created […]
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Episode 23 – Recovery Lending at Scale with Connect2Capital
25/06/2020 Duração: 26minThe full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is not yet known, but one thing is certain: PPP loans and other short-term emergency loan programs will not be enough to save many small businesses. Community Reinvestment Fund is mobilizing its one-stop-shop business lending platform, Connect2Capital, in order to ensure the survival and long-term success of businesses in low-income areas, many of which are led by women and/or minority entrepreneurs. Patrick Davis of CRF appears on today's episode to tell us about the platform and how other CDFIs can use it to amplify their impact in the recovery.
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Episode 22 – Foundations’ Role in Resilience and Recovery
23/04/2020 Duração: 40minAs the economic damage of COVID-19 becomes clear, foundations are looking for new ways to support their communities. For many foundations, mission-focused lending to nonprofits is not in their standard playbook, let alone funding small businesses directly. In today’s episode, Deb Markley of LOCUS Impact Investing encourages foundations to find new ways to work. She […]
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EPISODE 21 – STARTING AN EMERGENCY LOAN PROGRAM
09/04/2020 Duração: 37minAs we begin to deal with the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, many impact lenders are leaping into action to offer forbearance to existing borrowers and low-interest loans to new borrowers. This is new territory for a lot of lenders, so on today’s episode we talk with two experts from New Jersey Community Capital, […]
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Episode 20 – Tapping Corporate Treasury to Capitalize CDFIs
25/03/2020 Duração: 35minCDFIs have long relied on a few mainstays for capitalization–banks, foundations, and the CDFI Fund. Recently, though, we have started to see increased investment interest from non-bank corporations. Today’s episode profiles one of the CDFIs that has been doing this the longest and with the most success, as demonstrated by a high-profile $50 million investment […]
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Episode 19 – Coming to a City Near You: CDFI Friendly America
11/02/2020 Duração: 45minCDFIs strive to deploy capital where it is most needed. Nevertheless, a lot of smaller and midsize cities are left without a CDFI to serve them, even as larger CDFIs seek to continue to grow their markets. After observing this gap, Mark Pinsky, former CEO of the Opportunity Finance Network, decided to develop a solution. […]
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Episode 18 – Bringing Energy Efficiency to Community Development
14/08/2019 Duração: 16minMany impact lenders struggle with energy efficiency financing–sure, we all support the idea, but without technical expertise in the area it can be hard to get credit committees comfortable with utility cost savings that justify added upfront costs. Inclusive Prosperity Capital, a spin-off of the Connecticut Green Bank, aims to solve this problem. By specializing […]
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EPISODE 17 – OPPORTUNITY ZONES: GETTING CDFIs IN THE GAME
11/07/2019 Duração: 31minOpportunity zones have been a hot topic in the impact finance industry since their announcement, but do CDFIs and other impact lenders have a role to play? Michael Swack and Charles Tansey think so. They join us on this episode to discuss their recent white paper, “The Potential Role for CDFIs in Opportunity Zones,” which […]
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Episode 16 – An Entrepreneur’s Take on CDFIs
27/03/2019 Duração: 39minSometimes it seems like everyone in the CDFI industry knows each other, and that many of us have been committed to the industry for our whole careers. Our guest on this episode is not one of those familiar faces. Jim McSherry is a career entrepreneur and, for two years, took over lending operations at the […]
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Episode 15 – Lending to Small Developers for Small Buildings
23/01/2019 Duração: 27minSmall buildings make up more of America’s housing stock than the large multifamily developments we often think about in the finance world. That means that to serve all the needs of a community, addressing the small building stock is essential. In this episode, two of the leading CDFIs in this space offer the lessons they’ve […]
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Episode 14 – CNote’s Answer to the Retail Investor Opportunity
09/01/2019 Duração: 24minDoes heightened interest in impact investing present a real opportunity to diversify capital sources, or is it a mirage? Yuliya Tarasava, one of the founders of CNote, believes CDFIs and other community lenders can seize the moment and expand their capital bases. She joins us in this episode to offer her company’s approach to helping […]
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Episode 13 – Inside the CDFI Movement
28/11/2018 Duração: 28minThe grassroots movement that resulted in the creation of CDFIs as we know them today has a deep history. In today’s episode we explore that history with one of the luminaries of the industry, Cliff Rosenthal. Cliff was there when it all started, and he shares his insights and anecdotes as he takes us through […]
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Episode 12 – Changes in the Small Business Lending Landscape
24/10/2018 Duração: 19minMark Barbash joins the impact lenders podcast to talk about the changing landscape of the small business lending sector, and how impact lenders can best respond to it. The declining number of community banks and the proliferation of online lenders has shifted the small business lending environment dramatically. Impact lenders need to understand these market […]
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Episode 11 – Reforming CRA
19/09/2018 Duração: 34minThe Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) motivates a substantial portion of bank investments into CDFIs, and as budgets for community development programs shrink, its importance continues to grow. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency recently released an advance notice of proposed rulemaking seeking comment on reforms to CRA, highlighting the likelihood that changes are […]