City Learning and Action Lab
San Antonio, TX, one of the five cities the City Learning and Action Lab will work with to spur economic growth for Latino-owned businesses
The City Learning and Action Lab has launched in five Latino-majority cities across the U.S.
On June 8, 2021, The Aspen Institute Latinos & Society Program launched the 12-month City Learning and Action Lab in partnership with Drexel University’s Nowak Metro Finance Lab and Christopher Gergen, the CEO of impact investment firm, Forward Impact and Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow.
Under the Latino Business and Entrepreneurship Initiative, the City Learning and Action Lab will work with five Latino-majority communities to spur economic growth in regions where COVID-19 exacerbated long-existing inequities. The initiative is a hub and spoke model designed to support anchor organizations in each city to form an
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Pacific6 Enterprises Announces Investment In Detact Diagnostics™
December 17, 2020 GMT
LONG BEACH, Calif., Dec. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ Long Beach-based investment firm Pacific6 Enterprises, and South Pasadena-based JM Molina Investments, today announced a joint investment to acquire a 33% interest in Detact Diagnostics™, a Netherlands-based life-science company. Pacific6 is an investment partnership founded, in part, by John Molina, the former CFO of Molina Healthcare. His brother, J. Mario Molina, M.D., former CEO of Molina Healthcare, is the principal behind JM Molina Investments.
Detact Diagnostics™, founded in 2014 by former trauma surgeon Joost Gazendam, specializes in the development of bacterial and viral detection technologies. The company’s innovative, patented technique can accurately and reliably detect the presence of a bacteria or virus within minutes. This proprietar