We’re excited to share our new name with you! As a Community Development Financial Institution, we’ve been dedicated to providing economic opportunity for entrepreneurs who lack access to traditional sources of credit since 1994. We’ve served thousands with education and resources and provided $52 million in loans to over 5,000 clients in Southern California.
In the last year, we served more small business owners than in any year in our history. In seeing the disproportionate economic impact of the pandemic on low-to-moderate income entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color, we knew we were being called to make a greater impact.
Our new name Accessity, demonstrates our commitment to making a greater impact with the clients we serve, especially for entrepreneurs of color, women and immigrant entrepreneurs who often lack equitable access to loan capital and a community of support and resources.
Our logo represents the entrepreneurial spirit and a diverse community coming together to serve as catalysts for launching and growing businesses, as displayed in colors and design reflective of our diverse Southern California community.
At Accessity, we believe in building social equity through our lending philosophy and wrap-around approach of serving our clients with additional support and resources. We believe in meeting our clients where they are, and in putting value on the adversities they have overcome to become business owners.
Our team is excited for the future and will continue building our capacity and service offering to the Southern CA community, focused on three key areas:
- Serve more entrepreneurs of color, women and low/moderate income businesses through strategic partnerships offering COVID recovery and non-COVID products, including a new State of CA Small Business Energy Efficiency Financing Program, as well as further geographic expansion.
- Continued commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion through staff recruitment, development and training, as well as strategic partnerships, products, and communications focused on racially and ethnically diverse populations in multiple languages.
- Increased Business Support Community by expanding our local/national resource partners, building a robust website resource library, and development of a Peer Entrepreneur Community with exclusive marketing opportunities for loan clients.
At Accessity, we believe in the power of community and we look forward to working with each of you to provide access to capital and a community of support and resources under our new name!
Cheers,
Elizabeth Schott
CEO, Accessity
