New Report: CDFIs & the Capital Markets: Scaling for Impact
BII is featured in CDFIs and the Capital Markets: Scaling for Impact, a new report from Enterprise Community Partners and LISC! Learn about CDFI capitalization, market trends, investment products, disclosure practices, and investor perspectives.
Growth That Creates Options: Building for Change Without Losing Your People
Technology moves faster than people. BII’s Keyur Patel on why investing in your team is the key to growth that lasts.
Every Fund Manager Has a Thesis About Capital. What About Relationship?
Trust, reciprocity, and peer mentorship: inside BII’s approach to relational infrastructure for community-based impact funds.
Real Wealth, Unevenly Held: What Mass ECHOS Asks of Us
An op-ed by Betty Francisco on the new Mass ECHOS report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
A New Generation of Investors Is Choosing Justice. Here’s What We Built With Them.
The report is meant to serve as a working guide for fund managers navigating their own raises, for investors ready to invest in relationships and show up differently, and for funders who want their capital to do more than sit on the sidelines.
Stories, Soul, and Numbers: Reflections on Our 2025 Impact Report
Storytelling, testimonials, and rigorous qualitative and quantitative analysis, the 2025 Impact Report details the deep, relational work that BII engages in every day.
How Betty Francisco Rewrites the Rules on Impact Investing
Betty Francisco and Boston Impact Initiative have sent millions into communities of color, and they keep finding ways to grow that reach […]
On Fellowship, Kapwa, and What We’re Really Building
By Shavon Prophet, Director of Education & Partnerships I’ve been sitting with the word fellowship lately. Not the program structure, not the […]
Where Impact Matters Most
A GIS-based Impact Score tool for Impact Investments in Massachusetts By Rajat Kumar, Impact Investing InternBusinesses owned by Black, Indigenous, and People […]
Successes from the Business Resiliency Fund and Portfolio Advisory Board
In July, BII launched the Business Resiliency Fund—a $50,000 grant pool created to help portfolio companies weather heightened operational and financial pressures, […]