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.
Why I invest: Kara Ballester
- Posted by Tyana Smith
- On August 28, 2019
As lead investors in our Homebuilding Investment Fund, Kara Ballester and her husband Andy were instrumental in jumpstarting our efforts to accelerate affordable housing with San Diego Habitat for Humanity. We wanted to know—what motivated Kara to invest in affordable homeownership, and what has her experience with impact investing been like?
Closing education gaps with creative capital
- Posted by Tyana Smith
- On August 18, 2019
Our flexible, personalized financing approach allowed us to provide Friends of Willow Tree a $100,000 bridge loan that they used for expenses at the start of the school year, keeping the program affordable and accessible for their majority low-income students.
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.