Breaking Barriers to Capital Access for Returning Citizens
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
First published August 2023
In 2022, AEO conducted in-depth research and launched a pilot program with Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), social justice organizations, online lenders, returning citizen entrepreneurs, and other stakeholders to address these challenges from a behavioral science perspective and to inform the underwriting policies of online lenders.
Endeavor Ready 3.0: Breaking Barriers to Capital Access for Returning Citizens report outlines actions that lenders and organizations in the reentry community can take to improve outcomes in their programs and remove barriers to capital access to better serve millions of returning citizens.