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  • Webinar: Investing in Indigenous Communities through CDFIs

    Webinar: Investing in Indigenous Communities through CDFIs

    CDFIs have a strong history of providing economic resources to financially underserved communities across America, helping to create jobs, fund small businesses, and support affordable housing development. Often, many of the success stories you hear about CDFIs relate to urban or rural development projects and small business lending. This webinar will focus on CDFIs that have…

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  • CNote Named to ImpactAssets 50 List

    CNote Named to ImpactAssets 50 List

    We’re proud to announce that CNote was listed as an Emerging Impact Manager on the 2020 Impact Assets 50 list of fund managers. About The List The ImpactAssets 50 2020 (IA 50), a publicly available, online database for impact investors, family offices, financial advisors and institutional investors that features a diversified listing of private capital fund…

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  • CNote CEO Catherine Berman Selected for InvestmentNews’ 2020 Icons and Innovators List

    CNote CEO Catherine Berman Selected for InvestmentNews’ 2020 Icons and Innovators List

    The entire CNote team is proud to announce that Cat Berman, our brave and inspiring leader, was selected as one of ten innovators driving change in the financial services industry! Read the full release below.   OAKLAND, Calif., February 13, 2020 (Newswire.com) –​​​​InvestmentNews has recognized Catherine Berman as a 2020 Icons and Innovators honoree. Catherine was…

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  • CNote Partners with Natural Capital Investment Fund

    CNote Partners with Natural Capital Investment Fund

    Fintech firm focused on financial inclusion partners to become new capital source for loan fund serving central Appalachia and the Southeast. CNote has entered into a partnership with the Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIFund) that will allow NCIFund to access new investor capital aligned with NCIFund’s mission of catalyzing environmentally and socially responsible business development, sustainable…

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  • Investing locally for a global impact: An Introduction to How CDFIs are Addressing the Climate Crisis

    Investing locally for a global impact: An Introduction to How CDFIs are Addressing the Climate Crisis

    CDFIs have a strong history of providing economic resources to financially under-served communities across America, helping to create jobs, fund small businesses, and support affordable housing development among other great projects. With international attention and demand for action around the climate crisis, what role do CDFIs have in addressing this enormous challenge facing communities across…

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  • Announcing a New CNote CDFI Partner: Renaissance Community Loan Fund

    Announcing a New CNote CDFI Partner: Renaissance Community Loan Fund

    CNote announces new CDFI partner committed to housing affordability and community resilience, Renaissance Community Loan Fund Innovative fintech platform inks deal to become new capital source for Mississippi lender committed to economic development. OAKLAND, Calif., November 6, 2019 – CNote has entered into a partnership with Renaissance Community Loan Fund to serve as a new capital…

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  • Webinar: Introducing CDFIs as a Way to Invest in Economic Inclusion

    Webinar: Introducing CDFIs as a Way to Invest in Economic Inclusion

    Interested in learning more about Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs)? Even if you missed the live presentation, you can watch the joint webinar by CNote and Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs (ACE) a Georgia-based CDFI. Watch now using this link, or via the YouTube replay below. In this webinar we introduce CDFIs, their history, the…

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  • CNote Selected as a 2019 Best For The World honoree, top-performing Certified B Corporation

    CNote Selected as a 2019 Best For The World honoree, top-performing Certified B Corporation

    The entire CNote team is proud to announce that we have been selected by B Lab as a 2019 Best For The World honoree in the Customers category. This award is given only to B Corporations around the world with verified B Impact Assessment scores in the top 10% of all B Corps for providing…

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  • CNote Adds Another Stellar CDFI Partner, The Entrepreneur Fund

    CNote Adds Another Stellar CDFI Partner, The Entrepreneur Fund

    CNote has entered into a partnership with The Entrepreneur Fund to serve as a new capital source, supporting their mission to actively partner with entrepreneurs to grow businesses and create vibrant sustainable communities. CNote is working to build a more inclusive economy for everyone by offering competitive financial products that drive positive social change. CNote enables…

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  • CNote hires Danielle Burns to Head Business Development

    CNote hires Danielle Burns to Head Business Development

    We’re excited to announce a new member of CNote’s core leadership team, Danielle Burns. OAKLAND, California, July 11, 2019 — CNote has hired experienced Business Development professional, Danielle Burns, to help scale its advisory and institutional sales channels. Prior to CNote, Danielle served as the VP Sales & Marketing for First Affirmative Financial Network. There,…

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