BII is a nonprofit impact investment fund and certified CDFI. BII provides small businesses, cooperatives, community-controlled real estate projects with fair and flexible capital, expert advising, and trusted networks to build community ownership, shared wealth, and economic power, particularly in communities of color in massachusetts and new england. We do this by investing integrated capital a blend of loans, equity, grants plus technical assistance, and business resources to meet entrepreneurs where they are and grow their impact. BII also provides education and training to fellow investors, impact fund managers and philanthropists nationwide to build the field of impact investing with an economic justice LENS.