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Borrowers, Community engagement, Community Finance Fellowship, Gender equity, News, Racial equity, Team

What we learned in our very first Community Finance Fellowship

  • Posted by Wilda Wong
  • On March 30, 2021
We are proud to announce that the first cohort of the Community Finance Fellowship—Louise Jordan, Benson Ochira, Andrew Moncada, Essence Rodriguez, and Crystal Sevilla—is graduating.
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Advancing economic opportunity, Investors, News, Resources, Team

Mission Driven Finance Selected as an ImpactAssets 50 2021 Emerging Impact Manager

  • Posted by Wilda Wong
  • On February 23, 2021
Mission Driven Finance has been named as an Emerging Impact Manager in ImpactAssets' IA 50 2021, the first publicly available database that provides a gateway into the world of impact investing for investors and their financial advisors, offering an easy way to identify experienced impact investment firms and explore the landscape of potential investment options.
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Community engagement, Racial equity, Team

Impact Investing and anti-racism: From contemplation to action

  • Posted by Wilda Wong
  • On February 1, 2021
We were honored to speak with Shereen Daniels of HR rewired about our journey to being an anti-racist company.
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Advancing economic opportunity, Community engagement, Community Finance Fellowship, News, Team

How the Community Finance Fellows are learning during a pandemic

  • Posted by Wilda Wong
  • On April 29, 2020
While sheltering-in-place during a pandemic, we welcomed five Community Finance Fellows to our team in March to begin learning in a virtual environment: Louise Jordan, a renewed San Diegan with a legal background who moved back from Virginia to join us; Andrew Moncada, a financial analyst from Florida who wants to run his own impact investment firm one day; Benson Ochira, a refugee from Uganda with a degree in business management; Essence Rodriguez, an undergrad research fellow with the U.S. Immigration Policy Center; and Crystal Sevilla, an executive assistant from San Diego with a deep interest in economics and finance. See how they are learning during a pandemic.
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Advancing economic opportunity, Investors, News, Resources, Team

Mission Driven Finance Selected as an ImpactAssets 50 2020 Emerging Impact Manager

  • Posted by Wilda Wong
  • On February 25, 2020
Mission Driven Finance has been named as an Emerging Impact Manager in ImpactAssets' IA50 2020, a publicly available, online database for impact investors, family offices, financial advisors and institutional investors that features a diversified listing of private capital fund managers that deliver social and environmental impact as well as financial returns.
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Our team reflects on 2019 and looks forward to 2020

  • Posted by Tyana Smith
  • On January 23, 2020
With 2019 officially behind us, our team took a second to celebrate our favorite wins, which helps us to also look forward and set goals for 2020.
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Community engagement, Community Finance Fellowship, News, Team

Introducing the Community Finance Fellowship

  • Posted by Lauren Grattan
  • On September 29, 2019
Diversity is a strength, a great reducer of blindspots, and our industry has been woefully not diverse. This lack of diversity in finance perpetuates unequal access to capital and opportunity.
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B Corp: Best For the World Honoree

  • Posted by Lauren Grattan
  • On September 22, 2019
A year ago, we were certified as a B Corporation. This month we were named as one of the Best For The World for our incredible customers—the changemaking companies we support. We rank in the top 10% of all 3,000+ B Corps around the world for the positive impact we make together with our customers!
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Investors, Resources, Team, Why I invest

How Can We Make Investing in Our Community a Great Investment? Flip the Traditional Finance Model on Its Head.

  • Posted by Tyana Smith
  • On July 22, 2019
The idea for Advance came from speaking with people who wanted to invest in their communities and the issues that they cared about but didn’t know how.
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Racial equity, Resources, Team

Storytelling for Change: Going Beyond Diversity to Create Belonging at Work

  • Posted by Tyana Smith
  • On June 13, 2019
Recently, our communications team completed the Storytelling for Change course, a free eight-week online course led by global changemakers +Acumen. We expected to learn strategies to better communicate with the public, but we walked away with so much more than that. We ended up with a stronger understanding of our own personal stories and how…
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