Diverse-owned businesses represent a sizeable pool of undervalued, undercapitalized, growth-ready ventures. Partners in Equity (a Social Impact Investment Fund) piloted, over the past two years, a game-changing solution investing equity into owner-occupied commercial real estate, including building, land purchase, renovation, FF&E, and soft costs for these underinvested community-based businesses.
During a fireside chat our managing partners, and first money in investor, will unpack the triumph and trial of deploying “Green Dollars” into transactions that do not normally see private equity show up for black and brown business owners. This conversation will represent transparency, strategy and lessons learned on tapping an opportunity that promises both outsized returns and impact for communities across America.
