The whole record, on one screen.
Everything the Harlem Commonwealth Council has done since 1967, counted and shown plainly. Start with the headline numbers — switch to the full view if you want the detail behind them.
Money loaned to local business owners, paid back, and loaned out again to the next one.
How much we loaned out in each of the last ten years. Hover or tap any year to see the amount.
The share of our support going to BIPOC and women business owners.
This is the whole point.Ordinary bank lending has never worked well for the people who built this neighbourhood. Nine in ten dollars HCC moves reach an owner a bank has historically passed on.
A breakdown of the business owners in our loan portfolio.
Which kinds of businesses our loans go to, and what each has produced.
Tap any column heading to re-order the table.
Our education programmes, from middle school through adult workforce training.
Free advice, training, and help finding funding — from 42nd Street up to Inwood.
Why a loan fund goes further than a grant.
A grant is spent once. A loan comes back. When a business finishes repaying, that money goes straight out to the next owner on the block — which is how HCC has put far more into Harlem than it has ever held at one time.
The size of the loans we write, and how many of each.
In plain terms, before the technical notes.
Everything here counts from 1967. Unless a panel says otherwise, these are running totals across HCC's whole history — not one year's worth.
The same dollar gets counted as it works. HCC is a revolving loan fund: a business repays its loan, and that money goes straight back out to the next business. So the total we have loaned is larger than the amount we hold at any one time. That is the fund doing its job, not double counting.
Job numbers come from the business owners. They tell us their headcount when the loan is made, and again as we check in. A saved job is one the owner says would have been cut without the loan.
The short version of a long institutional history.
Questions are welcome.So is support.
If something here raises a question, that is exactly what it is for. Ask us for the detail behind any figure — or help fund the next line of this record.