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Partnership results in first deal for Indigenous Futures Fund and Cheyenne and Arapaho CDC

Partnership results in first deal for Indigenous Futures Fund and Cheyenne and Arapaho CDC

Jan 31, 2025

The Indigenous Futures Fund—part of the Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship (IIE)—and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Community Development Corporation (CACDC)—a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) serving Native entrepreneurs—partnered on a first deal for both. Both entities, launched in 2024, disbursed capital to Commercial Furniture Refinishers, a small business owned by Cheyenne and Arapaho citizen Marshall Franklin.

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Financing alternatives for social impact companies

Financing alternatives for social impact companies

Apr 14, 2021

Our Senior Portfolio Advisor David Cooper joined co-founder and CEO of Sown to Grow, Rupa Gupta, to share their knowledge of financing alternatives for social impact companies from both the investor’s and entrepreneur’s perspectives.

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Why we updated our logo

Why we updated our logo

Mar 29, 2021

Reaching a five-year milestone was not only an accomplishment we can be proud of, but also a good time to evaluate how we present ourselves to the world. We wanted to refresh the colors of our logo to better reflect our bold and optimistic approach to finance.

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Why invest with a racial or gender equity lens?

Why invest with a racial or gender equity lens?

Mar 24, 2021

We need more individuals thinking and acting in ways that take into account the dynamics of intersectionality—a framework that civil rights activist and lawyer Kimberlé Crenshaw coined—to provide a lens through which you can see where power comes and collides, where it interlocks and intersects.

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

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

Feb 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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Why I invest: Rachel Lozano Castro

Why I invest: Rachel Lozano Castro

Feb 16, 2021

One of the youngest people to support Mission Driven Finance portfolio companies, Rachel Lozano Castro leaned into her passion and know-how to organize a shared donor-advised fund (DAF) with her family that supports our flagship place-based strategy Advance. 

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How Lauren Grattan thinks about risk

How Lauren Grattan thinks about risk

Dec 28, 2020

Shoutout Socal recently checked in with our Co-founder and Chief Community Officer Lauren Grattan in its local stories series and asked her how she thinks about risk.

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Now is the time to try philanthropic investing

Now is the time to try philanthropic investing

Dec 18, 2020

In a nutshell, the federal government built temporary tax incentives into the CARES Act to urge Americans to make charitable contributions in 2020 and support our neighbors. For those who are in a position to give or do impact investing, there’s no time like the present.

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