Reports

Unstacking the Deck: Toward Financial Resilience for African-American Entrepreneurs in the South

This field scan explores the creation of solutions to help financially vulnerable African American entrepreneurs to achieve positive financial health as busi...

May 5, 2020

An Economy for All: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Capital for Women Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurs of Color through Inclusive Investing

This report describes the restriction of access to investment capital to capital markets for women and people of color. This lack of access further decreases...

April 23, 2020

Use of Digital Tools by Black and Latino Businesses

In today's most successful business, innovation through data processing software, apps, mobile-friendly websites and social media presence are found. This re...

April 23, 2020

Creating Viral Impact in Black Communities through Small Business Expansion

This report highlights opportunities for growth in Black-owned small business expansions. It emphasizes the nation's need to address broken economies in low ...

April 23, 2020

Asset Value of Whiteness: Understanding the Racial Wealth Gap

This paper explores popular explanations for the racial wealth gap and their data driven legitimacy in wealth talk in the US. Researching historic injustices...

April 23, 2020

Black White Gap in Self-Employment in US

This paper explores the Black-White self-employment gap by looking at evidence of Black-White gap in self employment, race differences in Black-White self em...

April 22, 2020

Black and White: Access to Capital among Minority-Owned Startups

Using the Kauggman Firm Survey, this paper analyzes the important question if ethnic minorities have adequate access to financial capital to further expand b...

April 22, 2020

Black Women Business Startups

This report summarizes a study of 34 black women business owners by the Federal Reserve of Kansas City. Key findings include that growth of the rate of busin...

April 21, 2020

Minority Entrepreneurship

This analysis of minority entrepreneurship explores opportunity structures, capital networks and impeding barriers that have slowed the minority entrepreneur...

April 21, 2020

Color of Wealth in Boston

Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's analysis of the wealth gap emphasizes the inequality of wealth accumulation based on race. The report findings stress the de...

April 21, 2020