Next Street Financial LLC is a merchant bank founded to serve high-performing, high-potential inner city small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S. Next Street selects businesses that are poised for growth and, in the context of a long-term trusted advisor relationship, provides them with flexible financing and Wall Street-quality advice to ensure they achieve their full potential. MORE >

In the current PERSPECTIVES posting, founder Tim Ferguson explores how investment intermediaries can evolve and adapt in order to further mission investing. Click here to read Re-casting the supporting roles to bring mission investing to scale.

Next Street client Roxbury Technology was named Top Minority-Owned Company of the Year and Top Woman-Owned Company of the Year by Inc. magazine and Initiative for a Competitive Inner City’s 2008 Inner City 100, an annual list that ranks the fastest growing inner city businesses nationwide.

Next Street welcomes Tim Greenfield as partner to head our strategic advisory practice in New York. Tim comes to Next Street by way of General Electric and McKinsey & Company. As a business owner himself, Tim brings an entrepreneurial spirit that will serve Next Street – and our small business clients – extremely well. MORE >