Nasdaq Foundation
Established in 1994, the Foundation works to connect business, capital and innovative ideas to advance global economies and local communities to champion diversity in investor engagement.
Building Strategic Partnerships
As part of our Purpose, the Nasdaq Foundation works to support under-represented and underserved communities by reimagining investor engagement and equipping communities with the financial knowledge needed to share in the wealth that markets create.
We accomplish this through two programs. The New Investor Initiative supports a portfolio of programs focusing on tackling overlooked barriers for underserved and underrepresented communities. The Quarterly Grant Program allows us to move nimbly to fund and help scale programs that meet the Foundation's strategic objectives.
New Investor Initiative
The New Investor Initiative acts as a center for innovation and ambitiously backs new solutions that have the potential to shift attitudes and access in underrepresented communities, to see that investing in the markets can be "for me," ultimately making the culture of investing more inclusive.
Fund Fundamentals
VC Include
VC Include will develop the Fund Fundamentals Program, a “Pre-Accelerator” for high potential women that are looking to create a roadmap and appropriate milestones prior to launching their firm. VC Include has identified the need for programming to support investment leaders who will ultimately build an investment firm in the next 1-3 years.
Institutional Change
Commonwealth
"Transforming Investor Identity" is a national, on-the-ground program that will engage Black and Latinx beginner investors to document their appetite for capital market participation with the goal of producing new data and insight about how best to serve first-time investors sustainably.
Power of Community
THRIVE
My Money My Future, in partnership with Black and Brown Founders, launched the THRIVE Initiative to educate and activate 1 million Black and Latino investors. The initiative raises awareness about building intergenerational wealth to ensure communities of color have access to necessary resources.
Partner Highlights
Mujeres Latinas en Acción
The Empresarias del Futuro (Entrepreneurs of the Future) program is a training program and curriculum designed to support budding Latina entrepreneurs across Chicagoland who want to initiate or expand a small business and improve their financial literacy skills.
San Francisco Disability Alliance
The Future Entrepreneur Program is an 8-week cohort-based program that provides individuals with the knowledge and skills to start a small business.
HBCUvc
Capital Access Communities is an initiative designed to foster collaboration and access to capital for underrepresented entrepreneurs in key cities across the United States, including Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, LA, and San Francisco.
Opportunity International
Opportunity International will implement the Women as Agents of Change program in India, empowering local women to serve as financial service agents for other women in their communities. Opportunity International will establish 2,000 women agents to reach over 3 million women in rural communities.
Mujeres Latinas en Accion
The Empresarias del Futuro (Entrepreneurs of the Future) program is a training program and curriculum designed to support budding Latina entrepreneurs across Chicagoland who want to initiate or expand a small business and improve their financial literacy skills.
We Are Enough
We Are Enough's 3.3.3 Challenge will engage 3 million women globally over 3 years to invest $3B in women-led businesses and/or with a gender lens in the public markets (with an average investment of $1000).
Black Girl Ventures
Black Girl Ventures’ Change Agent Fellowship is a nine-month leadership skills development program that expands the capacity of early-stage entrepreneurs and creates an ecosystem within their city.
Savvy Ladies
Through Building the Financial Roadmap for Women’s Wealth and Empowerment, Savvy Ladies is creating a personalized, digitized mobile portal experience for women to readily access financial education resources and pro bono advisors and help create a plan to to achieve financial security.
Hispanic Access Foundation
Partnering with Thrivent, Hispanic Access Foundation will provide financial and investment training to Spanish-speaking Latinos at four sites served by Latino churches in California.
Shared Interest
Shared Interest will create a 10-session course that provides HBCU students with an introduction to the history and fundamentals of ESG, SRI, and impact investing.
VC Include
Emerging Manager Training for Women and BIPOC Led Funds is VC Ventures' flagship fellowship program designed for first-time BIPOC fund managers who are looking to raise between $10 million and $100 million. Fellows receive expert knowledge and best practices from leaders.
Change Labs
The Native American Kinship Lending Program is a first-of-its-kind, culturally responsive lending model based on Navajo kinship providing Native entrepreneurs access to capital and resources to support growth and sustainability.
Consumer Action
Investment Literacy and Engagement Program for Women and BIPOC Consumers is a a 12-month investment education project entailing the creation of investor education resources in multiple languages and an investor literacy webinar series.
Central European University
The Energeia Project is the Central European University’s Innovations Lab's (iLab) pilot program, in partnership with Startup Hub Poland, to promote the advancement of female entrepreneurship in Hungary and Poland by establishing an ecosystem of support to reach 200 underrepresented women.
CLIMB USA
The Launchpad Program is an initiative to create a best practice framework for establishing Community-Based Investment Enterprises (CBIEs) in targeted communities.
Boston Public Library Fund
Boston Public Library will pilot an Entrepreneur-In- Residence (EIR) program that provides entrepreneurs of color and minority-owned businesses mentoring, advice, feedback, financial assistance, and opportunities to grow their skills and prepare their own innovative endeavors.
Our reimagined Nasdaq Foundation leverages Nasdaq's role in the capital markets to equip under-represented communities with the financial knowledge to better empower them to build a prosperous future and participate in an ecosystem that supports and sustains their growth.
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