With our partners Gran Coramino® Tequila and Kevin Hart, LISC has awarded $1M in grants to more than 100 Black and Latinx entrepreneurs, helping close wealth and opportunity gaps that limit their ability to grow. Meet our latest group of grantees.

Being a successful entrepreneur is hard if you can’t dream big. That’s why LISC, Gran Coramino and Kevin Hart are teaming up again to offer $10,000 grants to help fuel small business growth for Black and Latinx entrepreneurs who face systemic obstacles to accessing capital.

How cool is this? Today we announce the 50 Black and Latinx-owned small businesses that received $10,000 grants from The Coramino Fund, a grant program of LISC and Kevin Hart’s Gran Coramino™ Tequila. The program provides vital resources to entrepreneurs who have historically faced racial barriers to capital that have limited their ability to grow. Meet the 50 grant recipients!

LISC and Uber Eats are teaming up on a new effort to address the racial capital gap that affects many Black restaurant owners, particularly in economically disadvantaged communities.

Together with the Social Change Fund United (SCFU), LISC is providing grants to Black-owned businesses in six cities to help spark economic growth and put a spotlight on the challenges that Black entrepreneurs face when seeking capital for expansion. Each small business is receiving up to $10,000 as a part of SCFU’s ongoing Season of Giving holiday initiatives.

LISC launches a new BIPOC small business growth fund with support from The Colorado Health Foundation. Designed to assist entrepreneurs not well-served by traditional financing programs, the fund made its first investments in two Denver businesses that will use the patient, flexible capital for business improvement and growth.