The Best Black Business Fund in America

V.3, N.5

I’ll be honest: The Ujima Fund is one of my favorite community investment funds. Why? Because it is one of the very few funds that views its mission as more than just lending to worthy businesses. It sets out to strengthen an entire local economy. The Ujima Fund’s agenda includes local purchasing, entrepreneurship support, anchor institution mobilization, coalition building, grassroots organizing, and even political action. It focuses on Black businesses in distressed neighborhoods in Boston, like Roxbury.