BCNA Clients Featured in Wall Street Journal
BCNA Clients Featured in Wall Street Journal
Nothing is more gratifying than to see our clients succeed, and to see their hard work and entrepreneurial spirit recognized. This is particularly true of our clients who are immigrants and refugees, who often face a much steeper learning curve and bureaucratic struggle than non-immigrants do.
I was therefore extremely gratified to see a recent Wall Street Journal article that not only featured the Business Center for New Americans, but highlighted the story of two of our entrepreneurial clients as well: Amadou Diallo and Moustapha Cisse.
The article – entitled Mini Loans Feed Bigger Ambitions – features Mohamed Diallo, a cab driver and refugee from Guinea, who used a loan from BCNA, his savings, and a match grant funded by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) to help low-income refugees, to buy a Town Car; and Moustapha Cisse, a street vendor who immigrated from Senegal, who is using a loan from our PushCart Fund to pay off fines and purchase new inventory. Click this link to read the article. And click here to find out more about our other programs.