Washington, D.C. | October 24, 2023 ― During today’s 2023 Freedman’s Bank Forum, the Economic Opportunity Coalition (EOC) announced a new goal to reach $3 billion in committed deposits from the nation’s largest corporations [...]
Read Co-CEO Charisse Conahan Johnson’s latest op-ed in Fortune, co-authored with Xavier De Souza Briggs of Brookings Metro, and Bruce Katz of Drexel University. The op-ed focuses on how [...]
We recently shifted our compensation policy to be more in line with our anti-racist values. That means consistent compensation bands across our firm, merit-based promotions, and radical transparency. Learn [...]
The foundation reported that the loans are a part of the foundation’s approach to address inequities in business. To fulfill its mission, the foundation partnered with the national organization Next [...]
Charisse Conanan was promoted to the Co-CEO role, wrote a book and changed how she communicated with her team and their small business clients during the pandemic. In the [...]
In Q1 2022, Next Street made two major changes to its compensation approach to make it more equitable and transparent. First, we created consistent compensation bands for the entire [...]
Earlier this week, Hyphen launched the Fund for Inclusive Entrepreneurship to expand access to capital for small businesses owned by people of color, leveraging $10 billion in ARP funding through [...]
On October 4th, Vice President Harris and Treasury Secretary Yellin used the annual Freedman’s Bank Forum to highlight the administration’s focus on racial equity. As part of that, they released [...]
Today the Cook County Bureau of Economic Development announced the launch of the Source Grow Grant through the Cook County Small Business Source, a program that strives to support, grow [...]
