OSF commits $5 million for investment in race and gender equity
Awarded to Illumen Capital through the Soros Economic Development Fund, the funding will support an innovative strategy in which Illumen takes stakes in other impact investment funds and provides long-term, evidence-based coaching designed to help fund managers mitigate implicit biases that work against businesses owned by people of color and/or women....
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