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Wells Fargo Foundation Aims To Grow Diverse Housing Developers With $40 Million Donation

3BL Media

Capital Impact Partners, LIIF, Raza Development Fund and Reinvestment Fund lead new initiative to increase racial equity in real estate development. housing development market is known for high barriers to entry — and today, real estate developers of color make up less than five percent of the industry.

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Alliance of Milwaukee Organizations Announces $7.5 Million Grant From Wells Fargo Foundation to Boost Homeownership for Families of Color

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New initiative to create 5,000 homeowners of color by 2025. million grant from the Wells Fargo Foundation, the alliance of organizations addressed how the new effort will seek to dismantle systemic barriers to homeownership for people of color in Milwaukee. Housing — a home — is more than a physical space. Teig Whaley?Smith

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National Urban League Partnership With Wells Fargo Aims To Diversify Home Appraisal Industry

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$5 Million Grant Will Help Certify up to 260 Diverse Appraisers in Atlanta, Charlotte, and Houston. The grant is expected to be allocated over five years with a goal of certifying up to 260 diverse appraisers. This relationship will help to diversify the industry and improve customer confidence in home valuations.”.

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Wells Fargo Donates $20 Million to Strengthen Small Businesses in Atlanta

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The bank’s Open for Business Fund will help local small business owners build assets and make physical upgrades. The United Way of Greater Atlanta, in collaboration with Invest Atlanta, will distribute the funding as a mix of grants and loans in the city, with a focus on Black-owned and other diverse-owned businesses. 19 pandemic.

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A Social Movement Requires Momentum

Stanford Social Innovation

The only way to achieve sustained momentum that builds a movement is to leverage old channels and invent new ones that deploy large amounts of capital to smaller, less recognized, proximate leaders and organizations. Of course, both require long-term funding and investment since they lay the foundation for new approaches.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

They’re building furniture out of reused chopsticks, diverting tonnes of demolition material back into new condo projects, fostering vertical farming ventures to address food insecurity, financing diverse start-ups and sowing seeds of activism for the young leaders who will follow. I set out to create art that did just that.”

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The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

Some have helped with disaster relief. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. Badalian received an environmental law degree from Lewis & Clark Law School, which helped shape his policy work, he says.

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