Entrepreneurship in Rural and Under-Resourced Areas on Agenda for Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee Meeting

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee today released the agenda for its virtual meeting on Tuesday, Nov. 16, when it plans to explore ways to foster entrepreneurship and capital access in rural and under-resourced areas. The Committee’s morning session will feature a newly published report titled Rural Entrepreneurship and the Challenges Accessing Financial Capital: An Overview of Funding in Rural America. The report’s author, Alicia Robb, Ph.D., of Next Wave Impact and the University of Colorado at Boulder will present her findings to the committee, focusing on how entrepreneurs in rural areas finance their businesses as well as the challenges they face in obtaining the capital. Dr. Robb’s research also examines the data available on funding female and minority entrepreneurs in rural areas.