Blog Posts
Building an Inclusive Workforce with Second-Chance Hiring
Working Fields Offers a Path to Employment and Confidence to Formerly Incarcerated People and Those in Recovery Mickey Wiles is the CEO and Founder of Working Fields, a mission-driven...
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Three Insights from My Trip to Baltimore to Meet Potential Investors
I recently returned from a trip to Baltimore where Michelle Thimesch and I met with several potential investors for Opportunity Main Street, our place-based investment fund. I love the process of...
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April is National Financial Literacy Month! Is That a Good Thing?
It’s the time of year when you may hear politicians wringing their hands about the low levels of financial literacy in our country and advocating for teaching financial literacy in our schools.While...
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Why Access to Capital is Not Evenly Distributed: Racism and Finance
What is finance? Finance is the use of money to fund activities in the economy. These activities include everything from building buildings and starting businesses to buying stock in public...
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What Businesses and Investors Can & Can’t Discuss: Six Guidelines for Business-Investor Conversations
By Jenny Kassan and Michael H. Shuman What kinds of conversations can a business owner have with potential investors without breaking the law? Over the past year many local investment advocates and...
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What if I told you the only thing standing in the way of large-scale prosocial economic development was you?
Few people know about the potential of Investment Crowdfunding to save the middle class and bring back the unique character and charm of our individual states, cities, and towns. Investment...
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Closing the gaps in the regenerative investment ecosystem
My colleagues and I are on a mission to create a robust infrastructure and ecosystem that will make regenerative community investing easy, seamless, accessible to all, and fun! To this end, we have...
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When it Comes to Investment Crowdfunding—Compliance Matters!
What to Know Before You Take the Plunge The investment crowdfunding marketplace is growing faster than ever before, and is projected to grow by $196.36 billion from 2021 to 2025. Unfortunately,...
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Three Keys to Escape the Bootstrap Trap
You may have been bootstrapping for a while now—using your personal resources to fund your business and hoping that eventually you will be able to break even and start paying yourself and buying the...
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What could possibly go wrong? Using due diligence to make investment decisions
Due diligence, a fancy term for doing reasonable research, is a key component in the process of evaluating any investment opportunity. While there are no set rules for the due diligence process, due...
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