Community Investment Funds: A Change is Gonna Come
In the aftermath of the protests and marches of the past year or so, community wealth building has emerged as an often-discussed strategy of economic justice. Community wealth building is really another term for community capital, and it’s been at the core of our work...
Equitable Community Solar: A Sense of Ownership
Charged with exploring sense of ownership strategies for economically-disadvantaged communities in California, Cutting Edge Capital worked in partnership with the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project (WOEIP) to identify strategies and business models that...
Audio Interview: MedFire Innovations, Inc. Part 2
In our previous blog, we heard from MedFire Innovations' Founder and President, Greg Christmas who spoke about MedFire's mission to protect the lives of patients, emergency and healthcare providers through innovative, safer products. Now, check out part two of our...
Audio Interview: Meet MedFire Innovations, Inc. Part 1
MedFire Innovations' mission is straightforward: to discover simple solutions to some of the emergency services industry’s most challenging problems, and to develop products that protect the lives of patients, emergency and healthcare providers. Since launching...
Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative on KALX
Listen in as Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative (BAR-C) Vice President Adam Parks speaks with KALX Method to the Madness host Lisa Kiefer about the future of sustainable ranching and the alternative meat sourcing option his collective aims to provide local consumers....
Video: Discussion on Direct Public Offerings
The Cutting Edge team specializes in working with clients interested in community capital raise solutions such as direct public offerings, also known as DPOs. In addition to the many years of experience handling DPOs for other organizations, Cutting Edge was once the...
SEC Lowers More Barriers to Community Capital
This month has been full of big news. Yes, there was the election, of course. But there was other important news for those interested in community capital. On Monday November 2, 2020 – the day before the election – the Securities and Exchange Commission issued final...
Webinar Replay: Community Capital Series Part I and II
We need to build back better, and community capital is one of the key paths to drive the change we seek. This past month, Cutting Edge teamed up with SVX US to cohost a two-part webinar series exploring live case studies of place-based funds and nonprofit...
Welcome Randy Nye, New Cutting Edge Attorney
Randy’s law practice is focused on matters relating to executive compensation and employee benefits with a special emphasis on alternative asset investing within self-directed retirement accounts and (k) plans. Randy originally cultivated this expertise while...
Welcome Erinn Brooks, Marketing and Communications Associate
We are so excited to welcome Erinn Brooks, our new Marketing and Communications Associate to our team! For the past decade, Erinn has worked in the communications and marketing field in an array of industries spanning fashion and education, but has a special...
Department of Shareholder Primacy?
This week, the Department of Labor (DOL), headed by Eugene Scalia, announced a proposed rule intending to “update and clarify” the DOL’s investment duty regulations relating to ERISA Plans. DOL intends to impose a ban on any fiduciary managing an ERISA plan if they...
Black Lives Matter: How Do We End Injustice?
Black Lives Matter We have been listening and learning from many resonant voices in the Black Lives movement. We are asking ourselves how to be a better ally and how we can use our skills and resources to make change that is long overdue. One key question on our...
Webinar: Using Charitable Loan Funds to Spur Community Economic Recovery
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on businesses, especially small and mission-driven enterprises, Cutting Edge presented a webinar for nonprofits considering deploying a loan fund to further their missions. Nonprofits that intend to assist their...
Intrastate and Small Fund Exemptions to the 1940 Act: Now Is the Time
Imagine a typical American community in these very untypical times. COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll. Many small businesses have closed -- temporarily, it is hoped. Unprecedented numbers of workers have been laid off or furloughed as businesses conserve cash in the...
Welcome Elizabeth Carter! Our New Cutting Edge Attorney
We are so excited to have Elizabeth Carter join our team! Elizabeth is a social enterprise and community development attorney licensed in NY, NJ, and IL (pending). As Principal Attorney of the New Jersey-based law firm The Law...
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