Minority-owned businesses drive job creation, raise wages, and elevate standards of living for their respective communities, as well as offer a critical pathway to close the racial wealth gap. Yet starting or growing a business requires capital, and a legacy of poverty, inequality, and bias has led minority businesses to have higher barriers to accessing capital. In the face of significant evidence that systemic and structural racism are major barriers to accessing capital, how can we ensure that minority businesses survive and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic?
During the webinar, leaders from the Black, Latinx, and Asian American business communities will reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their communities and discuss with call participants public and private sector solutions for strengthening and supporting minority-owned businesses.
Rajiv Ahuja, associate director at the Milken Institute, focusing on the future of aging, moderates this Advances in Science webinar with featured guest Richard J. Hodes, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Aging (NIA) at the...
How are nonprofit organizations leveraging venture philanthropy to accelerate the development of treatments and cures? As part of The Research Acceleration and Innovation Network (TRAIN) webinar series, FasterCures takes a deeper dive into...
How are patient organizations taking on the challenge of diversity, equity, and inclusion within biomedical research to create better health outcomes for all patient populations, especially those historically excluded from research and...
One thing has been made abundantly clear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Californians are quitting their jobs at unprecedented rates. The recent job reports only continue to solidify this notion. Whether searching for better pay, more...
In a webinar on September 23, 2020, FasterCures brought together Peter Marks, director of the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Gwen Nichols, chief medical officer of the Leukemia &...
While employment in much of the United States has recovered successfully from the fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic, California remains one of the few states that has struggled to recoup jobs at a pace on par with the rest of the nation...
Data from and about patients is essential to advance biomedical research and development, but its collection and dissemination can be a significant investment of time and resources for patient organizations that choose to be the...
This webinar focused on the development and deployment of patient-centered outcome measures (PCOMs) for research and care, highlighting the importance of integrating patients’ voices into the research process. Unlike traditional patient...