Mill Cities Community Investments + Foundation for Business Equity
have become Nectar Community Investments
New name, same purpose
Our name might be new, but our history of helping our neighbors goes back to 2008. Nectar was established in 2022 through the merger of legacy organizations Mill Cities Community Investments (founded in 2008) and the Foundation for Business Equity (founded in 2017). And we continuously innovate, evaluate, and refine our offerings to meet our communities’ needs.
The essential ingredients for thriving communities
Nectar Community Investments is a community based financial institution that deploys resources where they don’t usually go — to historically disinvested individuals and their communities. Through loans, investments, strategic advice and advocacy for small businesses and homeowners in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, we’re building generational wealth to close the racial wealth gap.
Supporting and uplifting entrepreneurs of color is how we drive socioeconomic progress.
Everyone should have the opportunity to improve the health, quality and sustainability of where they live.
Our impact
$14.4M
invested in residential loans that helped homeowners improve and preserve their homes
$15.3M
in flexible financing for small businesses of color in need of capital to grow their business
$79M
in new revenue generated by 115 businesses that graduated from our Business Equity Initiative program
