Calvert Impact’s Post

Thanks to U.S. Department of the Treasury and Community Development Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI Fund) for hosting us on Monday to discuss the Access program and how states can leverage SSBCI funding to support our country's smallest small businesses. It was a great discussion with TruFund Financial Services’ James H. Bason, Goldman Sachs’ Sherry Wang, CDFI Fund’s Pravina Raghavan, and New Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA)’s Christina Fuentes. As our CEO Jennifer Pryce shared: "It's kind of a program in a box. We've tried to make it as easy as possible for states to come in and hit go right away."  "We have four states with us right now and there is no limit to how many states we can have. This just scales and grows beautifully." Jenn also gave a shout out to our supporters, Citi Foundation and Wells Fargo Foundation: "I want to call out some critical support that came from Citi Foundation and Wells Fargo Foundation. It's unusual that you get grant money to just figure it out and they gave us that type of capital... So, we're really grateful for that moment in time because it let us all as developers of this program work together to get to where we are today." If you are looking to get a state-based program up and running, learn more about Access here and reach out to chat! https://bit.ly/483PWh8 #ImpactInvesting #SmallBusiness