In April, Eric K. Foster, Rende Progress Capital (RPC) Co-founder, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager and Lavanya Mohan, Research Associate at the Aspen Institute discussed RPC's launch and its innovative system to merge racial equity into alternative lending considerations to Excluded Entrepreneurs who face barriers to traditional financing because of bias. Given that one of the many goals and values of RPC's mission, values and process in its future lending to Excluded Entrepreneurs is to strengthen business opportunities as a means to break the racial wealth gap, Ms. Mohan provided RPC with Aspen's "Bridging the Divide: How Business Ownership Can Help Close the Racial Wealth Gap" as