A key challenge faced by new and/or young businesses is access to affordable capital and business advice specifically designed for women, minority and immigrant business owners. In large part, this challenge exists because there has not been a systemic approach to connecting these entrepreneurs to scalable organizations like Accion, which has a 25-year track record of uniquely meeting their needs—and can do so across all 50 states. As a result, the match-making work happens in select geographies, which fragments the supply chain and creates sub-scale operations that don’t meet the full need.