Closing The Racial Wealth Gap

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with Orlando Watkins on the Boston Foundation Business Equity Fund

Posted

Jun 03, 2019

The Boston Foundation Business Equity Fund is a program designed to break down barriers and close the racial wealth gap for minority owned businesses in Greater Boston and surrounding areas. TBF Vice President of Programs, Orlando Watkins, explains.

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