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Advance Strategy

Advancing economic opportunity in San Diego and beyond

Advance provides the opportunity to:

Invest in a diversified portfolio of commercial loans through an interest-bearing fixed income-style asset, like a bond

Deploy transformative capital to nonprofits, social enterprises, and small businesses that benefit the community
Empower community through economic opportunity

Meet the Advance portfolio

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Target portfolio companies

Advance makes capital available to tenacious small businesses and nonprofits that are committed to advancing local economic opportunity. We look for “tweens” — businesses that don’t fit SBA, microloan, or bank criteria and where our investment will be the tipping point enabling a project to proceed. As an engaged community partner, we use a social credit ideology to finance investments up to $500,000 in nonprofits, social enterprises, and small businesses at rates that encourage success.

Advance Strategy portfolio makeup

Advancing an inclusive economy

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Nonprofits

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Owned or led by women

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Owned or led by people of color

The figures above are accurate as of December 31, 2022.
All information is cap-weighted and is reported since the inception of the Advance Strategy.

Advance Strategy

Mission Driven Finance Strategy

The Advance Strategy is Mission Driven Finance’s flagship place-based strategy launched in 2017 in our home community of San Diego, California.

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