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7 Women-Owned Small Businesses You Should Support
Women own 40% of all US businesses and generate $1.8 trillion in revenue each year. This Women's History Month, we're celebrating the impact of the 12.3 million women-owned small businesses that are contributing to [...]
Celebrating Black History Month with a Few of Our Favorite Black-Owned Businesses
Each year, Next Street works with thousands of business owners. This February, we're celebrating some of the incredible Black-owned businesses that we work with across our portfolio of small business programs. [...]
Reflecting on Next Street’s Journey as an Anti-Racist Institution in 2022
Since our founding in 2005, Next Street has committed to promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion both internally and through the work we do. In 2019, we officially launched our Inclusive Impact Committee (IIC) to [...]
2022 Grant Recipients
As part of our anti-racism commitment, Next Street launched a grant program to provide grant funding to BIPOC-owned small businesses using a percentage of our annual profit. The grant program is now in its [...]
Creating Next Street’s organizational values to be authentic, energizing and scalable
Last fall, we decided to refresh Next Street’s organizational values. Values are the core principles of an organization that are timeless and enduring. They influence an organization’s culture or ways of working, behaviors and interactions which can [...]
Next Street Announces Andi Crawford as Partner
We are pleased to announce that Andrea (Andi) Crawford has joined Next Street as a Partner and will lead our new Revenue Office. In her role, Andi will develop new strategic relationships for the firm, [...]