Strengthening Access to Capital for Minority-Owned Small Businesses

On Friday, September 14, 2018, the United States Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship held a field hearing at Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland to discuss strengthening access to capital for minority-owned small businesses. Mary Miller, Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins 21st Century Cities Initiative, provided testimony on Baltimore’s financing system, presenting findings from two recent reports, Financing Baltimore’s Growth: Measuring Small Companies’ Access to Capital and Financing Baltimore’s Growth: Strengthening Lending to Small Businesses.