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

Gender, Age, and Small Business Financial Outcomes

This publication explores the contributions of small businesses and differences in outcomes by owner age and gender. The report focuses wealth insights on fi...

April 23, 2020

Big Impact of Small Businesses on Urban Job Creation: Evidence from Five Cities

This report explores data about jobs by businesses with less than 250 employees in Chicago, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. The work also e...

April 23, 2020

Color of Entrepreneurship: Why the Racial Gap among Firms Costs the US Billions

This report emphasizes the important role of businesses owned by people of color in restoring financial health post-Great Recession. This report documents ch...

April 23, 2020

Minority Business Ownership: Data from the 2012 Survey of Business Owners

This brief analyzes the 2012 Survey of Business Owners to provide a examination of minority groups in employment, sales and business performance. Key finding...

April 22, 2020

Credit Scores and Credit Market Outcomes

This report summarizes data provided by the SSBF and KSF to provide information about the business credit scoring effect on Women-owned and minority-owned bu...

April 22, 2020

Access to Capital among Young Firms, Minority-owned, Women-owned, and High-tech owned

This report inspects access to capital for young firms while specializing in women and minority owned firms in the high tech industry particularly during fin...

April 22, 2020

Disparities in Capital Access between Minority and Non-Minority-owned Businesses

This report emphasizes the important contribution of minority business enterprises (MBEs) to the US economy. The analysis emphasizes inadequate access to fin...

April 22, 2020

Impact of Gender and Social Networks on Microenterprise Business Performance

This report analyzes the relationships of gender, social network stability and microbusiness performance. The publication emphasizes past research and identi...

April 22, 2020

Global Entrepreneurship Monitor-2015 US Report

The US Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is to provide the workforce with a better understanding of entrepreneurship. This report explores the finding from the...

April 22, 2020

Small Business Credit Survey: Report on Women-Owned Firms

This report explores the experiences and challenges of women-owned small businesses. Data indicate that women-owned firms start with less capital and raise l...

April 21, 2020

Microbusinesses in the United States – Characteristic and Sector Participation

This report explores the comparison of microbusinesses to non-microbusinesses and specific characteristics of female-owned microbusinesses as well as minorit...

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

Small Business Credit Survey – Report on Minority Owned Firms 2019

This annual report on the Small Business Credit Survey explores financing and challenges that face minority-owned firms. Small business ownership and entrepr...

April 21, 2020

Key Dimensions of the Small Business Lending

This report investigates the impact of women-owned and minority-owned small businesses on local communities and barriers they face in accessing credit.

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April 21, 2020

Microbusinesses in Georgia – Characteristics and Economic Impact

This study analysis uses the Survey of Business Owners by the U.S. Census Bureau to investigate microbusiness impact of the economy of Georgia as well as the...

April 14, 2020