For almost one billion women worldwide, having a basic bank account is beyond their reach. I recently met Sawsan in Jordan, where she runs her own sewing workshop with four other women. Their business is growing, and the orders are flowing in. But Sawsan has no...
After all the shouting there are just two types of coffee We get asked all kinds of questions about ‘sustainability’, we’re frequently asked what’s ethical and what isn’t and, more often than not, we’re asked why we don’t just...
In 2015 the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston released a study that revealed a city divided: median white wealth was $247,000, compared to median black wealth at $8. Not long after, Aaron Tanaka and Libbie Cohn walked into the office of a Boston financial firm to pitch...
Back in the early 1960s, my grandfather was a self-sufficient farmer in central South Dakota, until one summer, a storm came and wiped out his farm. He tried reaching out to banks for a loan to get him back on his feet and running again, but they denied him as they...
In September 2017, the storm hit. We received a flurry of anxious calls from people desperately in need. Hurricane Maria had just devastated Puerto Rico. The electrical grid was down and fuel scarce and expensive – many gas generators sat idle and useless. Portable...
Working in social finance, I’m motivated by a desire to help create a society that is more equitable across gender, race, and class—and my fellow financial activists are too. We know one thing we need to address is unconscious bias. We want to combat it, and yet, we...
