The document proposes a Community Equity Fund to provide equity injections rather than debt to Black and Brown businesses during the COVID-19 pandemic when many are at risk. The fund would take an ownership stake for 3-5 years and receive dividend payments from business revenues, returning 150% of the original equity amount. The money is reinvested to help additional businesses, with 40% of dividends going to donor-investors to create a sustainable funding model. An example is provided of the fund taking a 20% stake in a coffee shop for $30,000, to be repaid through 7% of growing annual revenues over 3-5 years.

1. Community Equity Fund

2. Challenge - Nontraditional Financing Model for
Black and Brown Businesses
Global Pandemic
50% of Black and Brown businesses are at risk
during COVID nationally
Not A Time for Debt
If you don’t know when your customers are
coming back, taking on debt is irresponsible.
Many Black and Brown businesses do not
have access to loans

3. Challenge contd. - Nontraditional Financing Model for
Black and Brown Businesses
…the Wealth Gap
In the 2019 survey, white families have the highest
level of both median and mean family wealth:
$188,200 and $983,400, respectively Black and
Hispanic families have considerably less wealth
than White families. Black families' median and
mean wealth is less than 15 percent that of White
families, at $24,100 and $142,500, respectively.
Hispanic families' median and mean wealth is
$36,100 and $165,500, respectively. Other
families—the median, reflecting the concentration of
wealth at the top of the wealth distribution for each
group. (https://www.federalreserve.gov/)

4. The Solution
EMSDC Community Equity Fund
The Fund injects equity capital, not
debt, the capital is returned to the
Fund through dividend shares of the
businesses annual gross revenues.

5. Case Study:
Bread & Butter- Coffee and Co-working Space
Bread & Butter, led by two African American males with
business experience, located in a historical commercial
business district. The business has $100k in annual
revenues.
Comparables value for the business are @ $150,000.
Community Equity Fund, provides an equity injection of
$30,000 for a 20% ownership stake in the business for
the life of the transaction, approximately 3-5 years
Inaugural Injection

6. Life Span– Flow of Injection
After the grace period, (24 mos.) Bread & Butter’s (B & B)
gross revenues grow to a minimum of $200,000
Starting in month 25, B & B begins repayment to the fund
through dividend shares,7% of annual gross revenues,
funds will be payable monthly or quarterly typically for a
period of 3-5 years
Full repayment would be 150% of equity injected

7. $30, 000 – to Community Equity Fund – 100%
$3,000 - Management Fee – 10%
$12, 000 - Donor-Investor Income Pool – 40%
$45,000 = 150%
Allocation of Dividend Repayment

8. Replication Across the Fund
From each equity injection round, the
fund continues to receive 150% return
from the dividend shares paid by the
business owners, 100% is re-invested
into Black and Brown owned businesses.
What the Fund Gets

9. Replication Across the Fund Contd.
40% of the dividend shares flow to the
donor-investor pooled income which
pays lifetime income to donors.
Your donation continues to cycle through
your community.

10. Success
The Fund becomes a $1M fund
The Fund becomes and “evergreen fund”
The number of Black and Brown owned
businesses are increased in WNC and the
region