Bonnie Oliva
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Bonnie Oliva 2011 Fellow
Bold Idea
Shape the next frontier in microfinance by providing direct, crowd-sourced investment from individuals to micro-business owners caught in the space between a traditional micro-loan and commercial bank finance.
Organization
InVenture fills a significant gap in the microfinance sector by providing micro-business owners with the expansion capital and resources they need to grow their businesses, raising this capital through an online investment platform. As businesses grow, they become engines for job creation and economic growth in their communities. InVenture helps catalyze this long-term growth by requiring businesses to re-invest a small portion of their profits in their communities.
Biography
Bonnie is passionate about small business growth and has worked with small business owners for the last six years. She is a go-to consultant – having most recently worked with GOOD on The Pepsi Refresh Project. She has also lent her skills to the Empowerment Group, New York City Department of Small Businesses Services and programs for the American Recovery and Reinvestments Act (ARRA). Bonnie holds a BA in International Politics from Wesleyan University and a certificate in Finance and Accounting from Wharton and was a StartingBloc Fellow (NY '09)
