Today on NEXT Economy LIVE: The Financing Gap, Processes, and Terms Perpetuate Racial Injustice

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SVC's Community Capital Group is excited to host COCAP as part of NEXT Economy LIVE tomorrow, TODAY, September 24, 1:30pm ET for a conversation on how The Financing Gap, Processes, and Terms Perpetuate Racial Injustice ([link removed]) .

Join Kai Nortey (Founder, kubé nice cream ([link removed]) ) and Jenny Kassan (Author, Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul ([link removed]) ) in conversation with Laina Greene (Co-Founder, Angels of Impact ([link removed]) ) as they explore the funding gap, processes and terms that help promote racial equity and empower communities.

There is a clear capital gap for entrepreneurs of color and while there are efforts to help fill this gap, traditional forms of capital give little thought to how these financial processes such as selecting pipeline, due diligence and even terms actually perpetuate a system of extraction and structural racism.

Innovative approaches to financing can be restorative and very sustainable. Investing in entrepreneurs of color who impact their communities is a key solution to ensuring racial equity and justice. They are best equipped to understand the needs of their communities and also offer solutions that are more sustainable in the long run to take their communities out of systemic poverty caused by structural racism.

This session will be a conversation to explore the funding gap, processes and terms that help promote racial equity and empower communities.

TODAY: The Financing Gap, Processes, and Terms Perpetuate Racial Injustice ([link removed])
Kai Nortey is a visionary and socially conscious, Black woman, business leader who is tenaciously building an ethnically inclusive, food justice and health economy in the Oakland-Bay Area of California. kubé nice cream is a NEW genre of non-dairy, RAW coconut ice cream made without synthetic bleaching chemicals. Kube is re-building healthier, sustainable food models and systems.
Jenny Kassan has over two decades of experience as an attorney and advisor for mission-driven enterprises. She has helped her clients raise millions of dollars from values-aligned investors, and she has raised over $1.5 million for her own businesses. Jenny is the author of "Raise Capital on Your Own Terms: How to Fund Your Business without Selling Your Soul" (Berrett-Koehler, October 2017).

Laina Greene has over three decades of experience in the tech industry and social impact space as consultant, entrepreneur, investor, mentor and educator. She has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for organisations of all sizes, and is co-founder of an angel investment network for women-led community based enterprises called Angels of Impact. She is also the co-author of a book “Sustainable Impact: How women are key to ending poverty” (2017).

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NEXT Economy LIVE is new weekly series in partnership with Intentional Media ([link removed]) , JumpScale ([link removed]) , Opportunity Collaboration ([link removed]) , and the American Sustainable Business Council ([link removed]) where experienced members and thought leaders host webinars, interactive meetings, and discussions where the real challenges, insights, and best practices of leading and funding mission-driven businesses can be explored with peers. Registration for each event is required. Recordings of all prior events can be found online here ([link removed]) .
* TODAY: The Financing Gap, Processes, and Terms Perpetuate Racial Injustice ([link removed])
* Wednesday, September 30 - A Conversation with Sir Ronald Cohen on Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change ([link removed])
* Wednesday, October 28 - Making Finance a Tool for Social Justice with Morgan Simon ([link removed])

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