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WNY Impact Investment Fund brings catalytic capital to Buffalo's East Side

The WNY Impact Investment Fund is putting capital behind its belief that talented entrepreneurs and innovative projects exist on Buffalo's East Side. The result is an impressive portfolio of revitalization projects with tremendous commercial upside.

Buffalo’s East Side is often filtered through the lens of "low-income census tracts" or "underserved zip codes."

The Western New York Impact Investment Fund sees a vital piece of the region’s economic machinery that simply requires a lead partner to help ignite its next chapter.

This is the underpinning of a conscious effort over the past seven years to play a leading role in bringing economic vitality back to the East Side.

To date, the WNY Impact investment Fund has invested in five East SIde projects totaling $5.2 million, creating life-changing jobs and turning moribund facilities into thriving industrial campuses.

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