For many small businesses, figuring out where to turn for funding, coaching, and guidance can feel like a job in itself. Next Street is building products that help them find and access this support.
Appalachian Community Capital is focused on making the small business ecosystem in Appalachia work better through investing in partners, networks, and new tools for CDFIs.
Nest helps small-scale makers strengthen the business side of their work, connecting them to training, mentorship, and new market opportunities.
Family child care providers make it possible for parents to work and for local economies to function. But these small businesses, despite their importance, are often underserved.
Entrepreneurship is widely supported, but rarely treated as a civic priority. Right to Start is working to change that through grassroots organizing, policy engagement, and entrepreneur storytelling.
See how Mastercard Strive Indonesia offers several small business considerations for policymakers and stakeholders.
What started as an internal push for efficiency using AI has turned into a bigger shift in how Accessity’s team works.
For small businesses, access to capital often determines what’s possible and what’s not — from expanding a storefront, to upgrading online ordering systems, or making payroll through a slow season.
CDFI networks, such as an industry associations or coalitions, function as conveners that capture and reflect the collective voice of members and help their members in many different ways.
The key question that emerged from our work in 2025 was: How do we help small business support organizations not only weather these shifts, but turn them into opportunity?
Learn how MARTA Soft POS is helping small businesses in Uzbekistan accept card payments via smartphones, improve onboarding, and boost digital financial inclusion.
How Alabama leaders are coordinating partnerships, data, and technology to strengthen the small business ecosystem and expand access to resources statewide.
Discover how local governments, mentors, and community networks help small businesses grow sustainably through trusted partnerships and hybrid digital support.
Explore how collaboration, shared technology, and network partnerships are strengthening the U.S. small business ecosystem and expanding access to capital at scale.
This post is by Lucinda Revell, co-founder of Boost Capital, an organization that enables financial service providers to serve customers via popular chat platforms without downloading another app.
Discover how tilt uses sustainability data and green financing insights to help European small businesses measure emissions, access funding, and accelerate their path to net zero.
This post is by ShopUp, a B2B-commerce company that connects mills, brands, and manufacturers to small neighborhood shops.
[The app is] easy to use, my order was processed quickly, and my order was delivered as soon as possible, explains Rose Guanzon Maningas, a sari-sari shop owner in Bulacan, Philippines.
Having more consistent definitions and standards about community lending data is one of the six shifts identified in our survey of small business support leaders.
This blog post is written by Subhashini Chandran, senior vice president, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and Leena Datwani, senior advisor.
In Tashkent, Uzbekistans capital and largest city, Olesya and Azamat are busy running their respective businesses.
This post is by Ragna, a Mastercard Strive EU Innovation Fund winner.
This post is written by MESH, a Mastercard Strive partner and the first online community for young entrepreneurs in Kenyas informal economy.
Emerging lessons show how localized, human-centered AI can help small businesses boost efficiency, access finance, and grow while avoiding new digital divides.