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  • Easy As C-C-C: How Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Uses Capital, Coaching, and Connections to Help Georgia’s Small Business Owners Thrive

    Easy As C-C-C: How Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs Uses Capital, Coaching, and Connections to Help Georgia’s Small Business Owners Thrive

    Martina Edwards knows what it’s like to be given an opportunity to break down barriers. Thanks to a nonprofit that helps place high-achieving graduates of color in Wall Street firms, Martina started her career in 2001 and became Merrill Lynch’s first Black female broker on the floor of The New York Stock Exchange in 2004.…

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  • How Toni Hopkins Embraced Her Entrepreneurial Side To Open Cool J’s Apparel During The Pandemic

    How Toni Hopkins Embraced Her Entrepreneurial Side To Open Cool J’s Apparel During The Pandemic

    In the years leading up to the COVID-19 pandemic, Toni Hopkins and her husband talked about moving from their home in Springfield, Illinois to North Carolina to pursue what she describes as “something different.” They’d even gone as far as to meet with a real estate agent to explore selling their house. Ultimately, the couple…

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Capital Growth and Impact

    Solutions for Capital Growth and Impact

    CNote’s Core Offerings CNote offers a new way to put your cash to work—designed to deliver competitive financial returns while maximizing impact through innovative financial solutions. With our technology, we have created impact investing solutions that cater to businesses, institutions, and individual investors looking to grow their capital. With 100% FDIC and NCUA-insured cash management…

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  • Investing In Black-owned Small Businesses To Close the Racial Wealth Gap

    Investing In Black-owned Small Businesses To Close the Racial Wealth Gap

    There is a staggering disparity between the wealth of Black communities and their white counterparts in the United States where wealth is the difference between financial and social mobility and terminal economic insecurity. In 2019, Black households, on average, had 14.5 percent of the wealth of the average white household. This disparity is reflected throughout…

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    Designed to Earn Competitive Returns and Drive Economic Change Through Impact Investing Use your money to drive positive change throughout America. As an impact investor, you can achieve competitive returns through CNote’s cash management solution, Impact Cash®, and a potential 4% return with fixed-income offerings such as the Flagship Fund and Wisdom Fund. These solutions…

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  • CNote’s Quarter Impact Report Q2 2021

    CNote’s Quarter Impact Report Q2 2021

    We’re excited to announce that CNote investors helped to create/maintain over 400 jobs in Q2 of 2021. In this report you’ll see: An update from CNote’s Head of Community Development Director CNote’s Q2 impact metrics Three new CNote impact stories A CNote firm and portfolio update Since Inception, CNote has created or maintained 5,232 Jobs…

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    Maximize Returns, Amplify Impact. CNote makes impact investing easy by connecting your capital to mission-driven financial institutions, including CDFIs, MDIs, and LIDs banks and credit unions. Through insured cash management and fixed-income solutions, CNote’s platform is designed to deliver competitive returns and tangible benefits to underserved communities. Whether you’re seeking liquidity, preservation of capital, or…

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  • New CNote Research Delivers Insights from Entrepreneurs on Improving Access to Capital for Underserved Women of Color

    New CNote Research Delivers Insights from Entrepreneurs on Improving Access to Capital for Underserved Women of Color

    New CNote Research Delivers Insights from Entrepreneurs on Improving Access to Capital for Underserved Women of Color By reimagining the lending process through an equity lens, lenders can make decisions that yield economic returns and have a significant social impact, says report. October 20, 2021 // Oakland, CA // CNote, a women-led community investment platform…

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  • CNote survey shows major opportunity for corporations, foundations and other accredited investors to meet demand for capital in underserved American communities

    CNote survey shows major opportunity for corporations, foundations and other accredited investors to meet demand for capital in underserved American communities

    52 CDFIs could pump at least $182M into underserved communities within a year if they could access capital at favorable rates CDFIs serving Black and low- to moderate-income communities report a persistent capital shortfall, with housing and small business lending the most underfunded Oakland, CA—Loan funds certified as community development financial institutions (CDFIs) have an…

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  • CNote Celebrates Five Year Anniversary, Thousands of Jobs Created in Underserved Communities

    CNote Celebrates Five Year Anniversary, Thousands of Jobs Created in Underserved Communities

    CNote Celebrates Five Year Anniversary, Thousands of Jobs Created in Underserved Communities Women-Led Community Investment Platform Has Helped Individuals, Institutions and Corporations Invest Millions in Equity and Inclusion April 22nd, 2021 // Oakland, CA // CNote, a women-led community investment platform with a mission of closing the wealth gap, today celebrates its fifth year in…

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