Jennifer Shieh, US Small Business Administration Director of Ecosystem Development
When you’re running a small business, you’ll take all the resources you can get, especially access to capital. But many founders have no idea where to begin to look for funding and wouldn’t even think...
25 Nov 202448min
Aaron Walker, CEO of Camelback Ventures
Median Black wealth is 12 times less than median White wealth, and it is estimated that median Black wealth by 2053 will be zero. While there are myriad historic and current reasons for such outcomes,...
18 Nov 202437min
Race, Privilege, and a Mission to Close the Wealth Gap: Johnathan Holifield and Christopher Gergen Share Their Stories
Christopher Gergen and Johnathan Holifield come from completely different backgrounds. One was born into power and privilege in a political family in DC. One grew up in the industrial, blue-collar Det...
11 Nov 202439min
Tracy Palandjian, CEO of Social Finance
Tracy Palandjian is moving the needle. She's the CEO of Social Finance, a national impact finance and advisory nonprofit that has mobilized $350 million in new investments designed to help 45,000 peop...
4 Nov 202443min
North Carolina A&T Chancellor Harold Martin
This episode of Moving the Needle features Harold Martin, the esteemed, immediate past Chancellor of North Carolina A&T State University. As America's largest-ever historically Black university and on...
28 Okt 20241h 10min
Investing in the American Dream, with US Economic Development Administration’s Alejandra Castillo
President Biden appointed today's guest, Alejandra Castillo, to head the Economic Development Administration. In this role, she leads the federal economic development agenda by promoting innovation an...
21 Okt 202444min
Economic Development and Communities That Get It Right, with IEDC CEO Nathan Ohle
Historically there are so many communities that have done a poor job of economic development and inclusive competitiveness, but we're talking about the communities that are getting it right. Plus, wh...
14 Okt 202453min
Trailer
Welcome to Moving the Needle, a podcast that explores how innovators and problem solvers are doing transformative work in cities and rural communities to create new pathways for generational wealth cr...
10 Okt 20245min
