MEDIA

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Tribal Access to Capital

• New Multisector Effort Looks to Unblock the Funding Spigot for Indigenous Communities in the U.S., Inside Philanthropy, Melissa Matthiessen, April 22, 2024. 

• READOUT: U.S. Treasurer Chief Lynn Malerba Joins National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development’s Reservation Economic Summit, March 13, 2024.

• Readout of White House Roundtable on Increasing Tribal Access to Capital, March 1, 2024.

• Readout of SBA Administrator Guzman’s Attendance at White House Roundtable on Increasing Capital Access for Tribal Nations, March 1, 2024.

 

Federal Infrastructure Communications Initiative

• News Release: New Survey Shows Potential for Infrastructure Messages to Drive Voters of Color to the Polls in 2024, March 5, 2024. 

• Milwaukee and Reading Infrastructure Research – October 2023 to February 2024, HIT Strategies and Hyphen, February 2024. 

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Federal Implementation​

• Eight Questions with Hyphen on Philanthropy’s $4 Trillion Opportunity, Inside Philanthropy, Michael Kavate, October 11, 2023. 

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Initiative for Inclusive Entrepreneurship 

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• What $10 Billion Could Do for America’s Small Businesses, Next City, Christopher C. Williams, March 4, 2024. 

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• Partnerships, Policy & Platforms: How the community development finance sector is supporting historic entrepreneurship growth in the U.S., Strive USA, January 24, 2024.

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• Organizations Emerge to Help Communities Access Federal Funds, ImpactAlpha, November 17, 2023.

 

• As Biden Scrambles to Reassure Black, Latino Voters, Some Ask If the Wealth Gap Can Be Fixed, The Hill, Tobias Burn, November 15, 2023.

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• White House Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces New Efforts to Expand Capital Access and Contracting Opportunities for Minority-Owned and Underserved Businesses at the Freedman’s Bank Forum, October 25, 2023. 

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• U.S. Treasury Department Announces New Efforts to Expand Economic Opportunity for Underserved Businesses and Communities at Annual Freedman’s Bank Forum, October 27, 2023. 

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• Press Release: Vice President Kamala Harris Announces New Investment Fund to Expand Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs of Color, October 25, 2023. 

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• Black Women Entrepreneurs Need Capital and a Call to Action to Get It, Black Enterprise, Jeffrey McKinney, August 7, 2023. 

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• Press Release: Hyphen Announces Next Phase for Cross-Sector Initiative to Expand Capital Access to Entrepreneurs of Color, June 14, 2023.

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• White House Fact Sheet: Vice President Harris Announces New Public and Private-Sector Efforts to Advance Racial Equity at Freedman’s Bank Forum, October 4, 2022.

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• New $100M Private-Public Initiative Targets Entrepreneurs of Color, Russell Contreras, Axios, October 6, 2022. 

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• Dealbook, Andrew Ross Sorkin, The New York Times, October 4, 2022. 

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• Press Release: Entrepreneurs of Color Get a Boost from a National Philanthropic Initiative, Alongside $10 Billion from Treasury, October 4, 2022.

 

 

White House Community Violence Intervention Collaborative

• A City Tries to Measure the Violence It’s Preventing, The New York Times, Mark Obbie, April 22, 2024.

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• White House Gun Violence Program with Philanthropies Ends, Associated Press, January 4, 2023.​

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• Press Release: Community Violence Intervention Collaborative Celebrates Accomplishments at White House, December 8, 2022.​

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• Inside the White House Gun Violence Initiative They Say Is Actually Working, Politico, December 7, 2022.​

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• Press Release: In support of the White House Community Violence Intervention Collaborative, Hyphen Announces 53 Groups to Participate in Training and Technical Assistance Program, May 11, 2021.

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• White House and Activists Hope Community Violence Intervention Investment Roots Out Uptick in Violent Crime, Ebony Magazine, May 18, 2022.​​

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• From Watts to CVIC: The next generation of Black-led community violence intervention, Our Weekly, September 15, 2022.​

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• Reducing violence by teaching conflict resolution, Axios Atlanta, October 6, 2022.​

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• Crime rates drop as Austin anti-violence program, CPD team up, Austin (Cook County) Weekly News, November 8, 2022.​

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• An unprecedented investment in alternatives to policing, The Appeal, September 22, 2022.​

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• Gun violence leads community groups to take bolder action, Associated Press, July 19, 2022.

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• Aqeela Sherrills on brokering peace in highly traumatized communities, Philadelphia Citizen, January 24, 2022.

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• Why the White House Backs Community Violence Intervention, The Crime Report, June 15, 2022.

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• Newark hosts violence intervention discussions, NJ Spotlight News, April 19, 2022.

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​Humanitarian Relief 

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• Opinion: Proper thanks to our Afghan allies requires more than words, EJ Dionne, Washington Post, November 24, 2021

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• High-Powered Effort to Help Resettle Afghan Refugees Awards $8.3 Million in Grants, Nicole Wallace, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, November 17, 2021

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RESOURCES

 

• Leveraging American Rescue Plan Implementation to Advance Racial Equity, November 2021

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• Collected ARP Resources, November 2021New Multisector Effort Looks to Unblock the Funding Spigot for Indigenous Communities in the U.S.