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CNote Impact Investment Themes
CNote is an investment platform on a mission to close the wealth gap. Led by the belief that everyone deserves a shot at financial freedom and that each of us can play a part in building a more equal world, CNote uses financial technology to unlock investments in Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs). CDFIs are…
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Mastercard Expands Partnership with CNote
Mastercard has expanded its partnership with female-founded impact investment platform CNote with a commitment to CNote’s Promise Account, an insured, 100% impact cash management solution. Mastercard and the Mastercard Impact Fund are collectively deploying $20 million into the Promise Account to provide recovery and growth funding for underserved communities across the U.S. Supporting a More…
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Change Makers Interview: Deborah Frieze
Deborah Frieze is an author, activist, and serial entrepreneur committed to the redistribution of wealth and reparations through finance. In 2001, Deborah left her job as a high-tech executive disillusioned by a corporate culture that cared more about short-term results than community. She became the co-president of The Berkana Institute, a nonprofit that strives to…
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How Vanessa Silva is Recreating Her Recipe For Success During a Global Pandemic
Vanessa Silva has always been comfortable in the kitchen. As an introverted child growing up in Brazil, food was how she preferred to communicate. Cooking became Vanessa’s love language, and by the time she was 10 years old, she was quite fluent in that love language, preparing special dishes for her parents’ dinner guests and…
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Meet Dr. Nola Veazie, the Entrepreneuring Veteran Who’s Growing Her Business around Mental Health and Addiction
Nola Veazie grew up in Panama with the belief that she could do anything she set her mind to. Nola’s mother, who raised her children on her own, encouraged all of her children to dream big; however, when Nola was 16, she realized that the opportunities she wanted for herself didn’t exist in her home…
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Change Makers Interview: Liza Fleming-Ives
Liza Fleming-Ives may be new to her role as executive director at the Genesis Fund, but she’s not new to the world of community development finance. Instead, Liza has over 20 years of community development experience, 15 of which have been with The Genesis Fund, a Maine-based Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). Since 1992, the…
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CNote Quarterly Impact Report Q2 2020
Download and view CNote’s Q2 2020 Impact Report We’re excited to announce CNote investors helped create/maintain over 350 jobs in Q2 with a record percentage of dollars flowing to female borrowers! In this report you’ll see: An update from the CNote CEO Details on our quarterly impact Updates on new partners and products A recent…
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CNote’s Q2 2020 Impact Metrics
We know one of the main reasons you invest with CNote, is because of the impact your investment has. We’re proud to share CNote’s Q2 2020 impact data. In Q2 2020, our members helped create/maintain 350 jobs! Over half of all invested capital was deployed with minority-led businesses and we deployed nearly half of all dollars…
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CDFIs: America’s First Responders to Economic Crisis
CDFIs: America’s First Responders to Economic Crisis Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have consistently operated on the front lines of economic disasters such as 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, Superstorm Sandy, Hurricane Harvey, and the 2008 financial crisis, providing economic relief to American communities when they need it most. As “first financial responders” CDFIs have demonstrated their…
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Meet Christine Uwimbabazi, The Entrepreneuring Immigrant Behind The Wheel of Prime Care Transportation
When Christine Uwimbabazi came to the United States from her home country of Rwanda in 2000, she didn’t plan to open a small business. Instead, she came for college. Christine enrolled at LaRoche University, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Six years later, she married Reverien Mfizi, one of her classmates. The two had gone to the same…
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