NCRC Selected To Manage $175 Million Boost For Illinois Small Businesses Impacted By COVID
NCRC will administer Illinois’ new Back to Business grant program for restaurant, hospitality and creative arts businesses around the state.
COVID-19
NCRC STATEMENT: Partial Foreclosure Moratorium Welcome News But Insufficient To Scope Of Crisis
Governments Should Expand And Better Implement Homeowner Assistance Fund
COVID Creative Placemaking
of this national health crisis will take longer than initially expected. Utilizing art to process loss, explore themes of inequity in health and advocate for a more just society has a much-needed place in the creativity and function of community.
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In Philadelphia, over 21,500 evictions were avoided during the pandemic, mostly in Black and Hispanic communities. Will evictions soar as the moratorium ends?
The COVID-19 pause in evictions for unpaid rent is about to end. New analysis and a map from NCRC shows which neighborhoods in Philadelphia face the greatest risk for new evictions.
National Community Reinvestment Coalition, Equivico by NCRC, and the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Announce Recipients of Inaugural Small Business Grant Program
The program awarded $1.3 million to 65 small businesses through grants of up to $20,000 each that do not need to be repaid to fund projects that will help businesses across the U.S. pivot, drive innovation, and grow in a challenging economic landscape.Â
Viruses Know No Borders. Vaccines Shouldn’t Either.
The pandemic has highlighted how interconnected the world is. As my own family’s tragedies have made all too clear, viruses know no borders — and neither do death, grief and mourning. Life-saving vaccines shouldn’t either.
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Report: Black-owned Small Businesses Are Keystones in the Cultural Foundation of Historically Black Neighborhoods in the District of Columbia and Baltimore.
The pandemic and rapid social changes brought many challenges for a group of Black business owners in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, but even so they emphasized the role of their businesses in maintaining the cultural vibrancy of their communities.
The COVID Pandemic And Its Impacts On Culturally Significant Businesses
The pandemic and rapid social changes brought many challenges for a group of Black business owners in Washington, D.C., and Baltimore, but even so they emphasized the role of their businesses in maintaining the cultural vibrancy of their communities.
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Black Entrepreneurship’s Lethal Pre-Existing Condition: The Racial Wealth Divide During the COVID Crisis
Black America was in an economic crisis before COVID-19, and recovery for Black-owned businesses will require solutions to the economic preconditions that made success and wealth accumulation so difficult to achieve before the pandemic, a new report found.
Report: For Black business owners, economic recovery is hobbled by Pre- Existing Conditions and Inequality
Black America was in an economic crisis before COVID-19, and recovery for Black-owned businesses will require solutions to the economic preconditions that made success and wealth accumulation so difficult to achieve before the pandemic, a new report found.
NCRC Applauds CDC Decision to Extend Eviction Moratorium
This was the right move and essential to keep people safe and in their homes. The pandemic isn’t over, the financial crisis it created for millions of families isn’t over, and evictions now would make the situation much worse.
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Principles for CRA Reform: Strengthen Communities, Exams and Accountability
The following are principles of reform; if the agencies contradict or contravene these principles, we will oppose any additional regulatory changes just as we have opposed the OCC final rule. Reforming CRA must not become a pretext for relaxing CRA.
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Women of Color, Wealth and COVID-19
Overrepresentation in consumer-facing jobs, poverty and lack of wealth are all aspects that put women of color in high levels of physical and financial danger during the COVID-19 pandemic.Â
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Women in Crisis: NCRC launches a popup publishing series about America’s First Female Recession.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll publish essays from NCRC staff, members, local leaders and national partners who can give a voice to the concerns, issues and solutions for women, specifically Black, indigenous and women of color, who have been living through and managing this health and economic crisis for the past year.Â
Relationships Matter: Small Business and Bank Branch Locations
Relationships Matter: Small Business and Bank Branch Locations March 2021 — Key Takeaways The number of banks and bank branches has declined significantly since 2009. Local branches are still crucial to small business lending. Small business lending is increasingly dominated by the largest lending institutions. Smaller institutions are disappearing as they merge or are bought
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