Episode 28| Kaine Nicholas
In This Episode | The Black Cooperative Investment Fund
Dr. Theo and Dr. Jaqui talk with Kaine Nicholas, Executive Director of the Black Cooperative Investment Fund (BCIF) which provides microloans to the Black community. Kaine is passionate about building financial literacy within the household and within small businesses. He shares how people can support BCIF, how to get funding from BCIF, and its impact on the community.
Recorded: August 28, 2021
Guest Bio
Kaine Nicholas
Kaine is an accomplished financial professional with more than 15 years of entrepreneurial and financial experience. He is the first Executive Director of the Black Cooperative Investment Fund (BCIF)-- which is a community-based organization rooted in self-help economics that unapologetically provides microloans to the Black Community.
As the BCIF Executive director, Kaine practices cooperative economics with the Black Community in Southern California. He accelerates these entrepreneurs’ growth by giving them capital which comes from pooled dollars and microloans.
Kaine holds an MBA from Babson College for global entrepreneurship and he received a bachelor’s in economics & finance from Bentley University. He is a Riordan Fellow at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a certificate holder for board and executive leadership from the USC Cecil Murray Institute for Community Engagement and the African-American Board Leadership Institute.
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