Project Vanguard Research
Accelerating Wealth Creation for Black and Latina Women

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To support and advance the work of Project Vanguard, the Center commissioned a collaborative research process to co-create data-informed recommendations for building anti-racist, systematic changes in procurement, lending, and ecosystem resources that can foster a resilient, local, inclusive supply chain.

 The Center guided this collaborative research, grounded in quantitative and qualitative data collection and analyses, to scan the public and private sectors, businesses owned by people of color, and service and support providers across the regional ecosystem for opportunities to further these goals.

 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This research was made possible thanks to the time and the talents of many people who supported and guided the project and participated in interviews. In particular, the Center would like to thank the teams at Metro-Source and RTI International for helping to conduct interviews, code and analyze collected data and write the report.