A community bank is rewriting who gets a small-business loan.
One member lender approved 38% more first-time business loans this quarter than the metro average, and the model is spreading across the network.
Editorial Staff
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The network runs on dues alone and the Fund writes its first checks.
Grocery stores open in food deserts. Proven businesses get scale capital.
The HBCU funding math changes. A coalition hospital becomes a plan, not a dream.
Institutional freedom: our own hospitals, endowments, equity where we've been exploited, and political objectives funded by us, answerable to us.
Forty-eight million of us at $25 a year is $1.2 billion, every year, forever. Every count above is a $25 decision.
Be counted →The Resistance
Power, held to account
Who's stalling the minority-contractor set-aside? A paper trail
Spotlight
Our everyday superheroes
Denise Harmon: one food truck to three storefronts
The Record
Our history, kept alive · via Black's Encyclopedia ↗
On this day, 1908: Thurgood Marshall is born in Baltimore
Excellence
The standard, raised
A record HBCU class walks into corporate engineering
A swim, athletic, and social club near Charlotte
What the network is covering today
Minority contractors win a bigger share of the airport build
A revised set-aside takes effect this month after two years of organizing.
Editorial StaffLicensedA new data-science program built with employers in the room
Graduates are guaranteed an interview with eight member firms.
Editorial StaffSource-outThe case for a regional business index, and how we'd build it
Our editors drafted this in the Studio. Read how the desk works.
Editorial StaffOriginalResistanceCounty commissioners table the stadium tax vote
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TUEPAC Desk · 3hThe people lifting this community
Profiles of the people doing the work. No news peg required. Know one? Put them on the front page.
Denise Harmon
From one food truck to three storefronts, hiring 22 neighbors along the way.
Spotlight · TUEPAC Desk · 6 minMarcus Reid
First in his family to graduate. Now recruiting engineers back home.
Spotlight · TUEPAC Desk · 5 minGloria Whitfield
Forty years of Saturday tutoring: 3,000 kids and counting.
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