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
In Search of Solid Ground: Understanding the Financial Vulnerabilities of Microbusiness Owners
Prosperity Now initiated a study in 2013 to better understand the greatest challenges and solutions that impact small business owners. This report explores t...
May 4, 2020
Demographic Trends Will Shape the Future of Entrepreneurship
This report investigates how changing demographic trends such as retirement age and the highly educated young worker replacements will alter the American eco...
May 4, 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
Key Soft Skills That Foster Youth Workforce Success Towards a Consensus Across Fields
Soft skills are defined as competencies, behaviors and personal attitudes to enable environments with other people as well as goal achieving. This publicatio...
April 23, 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
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
Social Benefits of Homeownership and Stable Housing
As research has consistently shown the importance of housing on the economy and long-term financial stability, this report explores that existing research an...
April 22, 2020
Leap Before You Lag
IBM Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs provides an analysis of the nonprofit sector and the value of collecting and sharing information. The publica...
April 22, 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
Identifying Opportunity Occupations in the Nation’s Largest Metropolitan Economies
This paper explores the likelihood of workers without a four-year college degree being offered decent-paying jobs in the 100 largest metropolitan areas. Key ...
April 21, 2020
FDIC Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Household 2013
This report explores the necessity of inclusiveness of the banking system. Many US families do not have a mainstream banking relationship which sets them up ...
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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Small Business Owner Report 2016
This semi-annual report explores the challenges, successes and perspectives of small business owners across the country. This report looks closely at the rol...
April 21, 2020
State of Small Business in America
This report explores the impact of small business growth and job creation in America. This report examines challenges such as access to capital, workforce sk...
April 21, 2020