Gary Cunningham

The Association for Enterprise Opportunity provides microenterprise development services. It provides its team members with a forum, information, and voice to promote enterprise opportunity for people and communities. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Washington, DC.

Capital Impact Partners operates as a community development financial institution. It provides strategic financing, housing, cooperative development, education, healthcare, and health food services. The company is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

First Children's Finance provides financing, training and business-development assistance to child care businesses. It offers loans and financial technical assistance, business training and consulting, community consulting projects, and rural child care innovation programs. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

Artspace Projects, Inc. is a private company that specializes in developing affordable spaces for artists and small businesses. The company is based in Minneapolis, MN and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company creates, own, and operate these spaces, making them accessible to those who may not have the means to afford traditional commercial real estate.

Momentus Capital is a family of mission-driven organizations that are working to transform traditional financial systems to address systemic issues of inequality, economic empowerment, and the widening racial wealth gap. The private company is based in Arlington, VA and has subsidiaries in the United States. The company offers a continuum of financial, knowledge, and social capital to help local leaders build inclusive and equitable communities and create generational wealth. Momentus Capital has a portfolio of nearly $3 billion and has delivered more than $23 billion in financing, created and preserved 250,000 jobs, and served 12,000 small businesses and five million people across their history. The CEO of the company is Ellis Carr.

CDC Small Business Finance Corp. is a not-for-profit company, which engages in the provision of financial services. It offers loans and loan advising. The company was founded in 1978 by Arthur H. Goodman and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Metropolitan Economic Development Association provides business management consulting services for minority entrepreneurs. The non-profit company is based in Minneapolis, MN. Dorothy J. Bridges has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Prosperity Now is an organization that has been advocating for economic opportunity since 1979. The private company is based in Washington, and the CEO of the company is Cherie Collins Sims. The American company works towards advancing racial and ethnic economic justice by investing in innovative ideas and working at both grassroots and national levels. The organization aims to impact the entire ecosystem by setting goals for the economy and following through with targeted approaches based on need. Prosperity Now believes that everyone deserves a chance to prosper and has helped millions of people, especially people of color and those with limited incomes, to achieve financial security, stability, and prosperity. The company offers practical solutions, in-depth research, and proven strategies to build wealth for those who need it most.

The Minneapolis Foundation operates as a community foundations. The company was founded by E. L. Carpenter, F. M. Prince, Elbridge C. Cooke, F. A. Chamberlain, and Hovey C. Clarke in 1915 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.