Local Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Toolkit
November 12, 2019Rural economic development strategies need to adjust to these new trends to include a place-based approach to rural economic development…Small Businesses Advancing Equity
October 25, 2019Leaders in philanthropy increasingly recognize the role of business in advancing their objectives. To date, the focus of most efforts…CDFIs by The Numbers
October 23, 2019The Richmond Fed’s recent report, Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) by the Numbers, provides findings from the 2019 Federal Reserve CDFI…Small Business Economic Bulletin October 2019
October 21, 2019Small businesses show strength in self-employment increases, proprietors’ income gains, job creation advances and births staying above deaths. Loan delinquency…Female Founding Gaps in Agri-FoodTech
October 4, 2019Agri-FoodTech is an emerging category within the food startup universe with enormous potential to impact critical issues from climate change…Small Business Owners on Healthcare
September 9, 2019There are an estimated 30.7 million small businesses (defined as those with fewer than 500 employees) in the United States,…Inequity in Small Business Lending
September 4, 2019Better-qualified black and Hispanic testers who shopped for small business loans at Los Angeles area bank branches were treated worse…Building Women’s Wealth Through Business Ownership
July 23, 2019This report explores ways business ownership can serve as a wealth-building tool for women, explains the systemic barriers impeding women’s…The State of Independence 2019
June 18, 2019The MBO Partners State of Independence report presents an annual snapshot of a rapidly evolving and increasingly important component of…Small Businesses after The Great Recession
June 7, 2019Small businesses are essential to the economic infrastructure of both lower-income and higher-income neighborhoods. In this report, we compare small…