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¡VIVA MEDA! Anniversary Celebration

10/12/2016 @ 6:00 pm – 11:00 pm – Celebrate another year of the Mission Economic Development Agency’s (MEDA) commitment to promoting economic equity and social justice in San Francisco. Join us as we also honor two luminaries and whose significant contributions helped achieve progress at MEDA, in the Mission District community and for San Francisco at large.

EBALDC 41st Annual Gala Celebration

10/20/2016 @ 5:00 pm – 9:00 pm – Tickets are on sale! Contact Jill Kunishima at (510) 606-1823 and jkunishima@ebaldc.org for more information.

Opening Doors’ Festival of Flavors

10/22/2016 @ 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Celebrate diversity and our community’s prosperity! This event marks Opening Doors’ third annual fundraiser. Join us for some international cuisine, local craft beer and wine, live music, a silent auction, and more! Proceeds benefit Opening Doors, our clients and programs. Your support empowers survivors of trafficking, refugees, immigrants, and other underserved in our community. Buy […]

Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets

10/25/2016 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – The U.S. Small Business Administration and the Milken Institute invite you to join us on Thursday, Oct. 27, for the second gathering of the Partnership for Lending in Underserved Markets (PLUM) Initiative in Los Angeles. The PLUM endeavor is a groundbreaking collaboration to develop and test how best to provide capital to minority-owned businesses. The […]

WEV 25th Anniversary Gala

10/27/2016 @ 12:00 am – On October 27, 2016, WEV will host a once-in-a-quarter-century event, a 25th Anniversary Gala dinner, at the Santa Barbara Biltmore Hotel’s Coral Casino. We hope you will consider supporting this very special event by signing on as a sponsor. Of course, all proceeds from the event will support WEV’s comprehensive continuum of services to help […]

6th Annual Asset Building Symposium

11/03/2016 @ 8:30 am – 12:30 pm – Join Bay Area funders, nonprofits, public agencies, and policymakers on November 3rd for a conversation around fostering economic equity in the Bay Area’s rapidly changing economy. This event is designed to bring together the Bay Area asset building field, from the experts to the newbies! How are traditional asset building strategies such as homeownership and […]

La Cocina Food & Entrepreneurship Conference

11/13/2016 – 11/14/2016 @ All Day – Join us for our annual Food + Entrepreneurship Conference, presented by Whole Foods Market, on November 13th & 14th at The Village in San Francisco. This year, the conference will kick off on Sunday, November 13th with a full day of conversations, workshops and food with a focus on how small businesses can be activists for change […]

Centro Community Partners Block Party

12/07/2016 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm – Centro Community Partners is having a party to celebrate the Bay Area’s small business owners who are emerging around us every day, and who thrive only with the support of many, like you! So please join us to discover more of our local talent and home community at this big “block-party” we are calling: Meet […]

Building the High Road Workplace: Practices & Policies

01/12/2017 @ 5:30 pm – 7:45 pm – Companies across the U.S. are beginning to implement High Road Workplace practices — a mix of improved compensation and benefits, flexibility, participative management, greater transparency, employee ownership, and more. High Road practices boost profitability and shareholder returns while improving the lives of employees and strengthening local communities. Unfortunately, many employers have yet to take the […]

Self-Employed Entrepreneurs: The New Era Workforce

01/18/2017 @ All Day – The nascent on-demand economy is growing with hundreds of new platforms that have inspired new thinking and practices. Attention is being paid to how these companies are disrupting commerce, solving logistic problems, and creating a new sector of the labor force—and a new era of entrepreneurs. Today, the number of small business is growing exponentially—and […]