Daily Archives: September 4, 2021

Designing a collaborative fund for underserved entrepreneurs: Lessons from Western New York’s Open4 program

Across the country, small businesses create more than two-thirds of all new jobs in the private sector. In places where substantially lower percentages of minorities and women obtain small business loans (particularly those with higher concentrations of minority populations, such as Buffalo and Rochester), small business growth is constrained, thus limiting economic growth and restricting…