NAIC has partnered with these pioneering minority business organizations to expand investment opportunities in the US Emerging Domestic Market (EDM).

NAIC thanks these partners for their support and commitment to NAIC’s mission.

If your organization is interested in exploring partnership opportunities with NAIC, please contact NAIC president and CEO Samuel J. Boyd, Jr., at sboyd@naicvc.com.

The Executive Leadership Council is an independent, nonprofit 501(c)(6) corporation, founded in 1986 by 19 African-American corporate executives dedicated to a bold mission: to provide African-American executives of Fortune 500 companies with a network and leadership forum that adds perspective and direction to the achievement of excellence in business, economic and public policies for the African-American community, their corporations and the community at large. The Council is a unique, individual membership organization representing the most senior African-American corporate executives in Fortune 500 companies. Membership consists of nearly 400 people, one-third of them women, representing more than 200 companies.

The Marathon Club is a partnership between The Executive Leadership Council (ELC), the National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC), and New America Alliance (NAA), It is focused on increasing the availability and investment of private equity capital into enterprises that have significant minority ownership and management participation. In support of this objective, The Marathon Club provides education, professional development and networking opportunities to motivated individuals designed to increase the supply of high quality deals and the number of institutional deal financings within the Emerging Domestic Market (EDM). Additionally, The Marathon Club works with other organizations to develop research and public policies that will increase the success of minority business enterprises.

New America Alliance (NAA) is a 501(C)(6) organization of American Latino business leaders committed to leading the process of Latino empowerment and wealth-building by expanding the forms of capital most crucial for economic advancement, including economic capital, political capital, human capital, and philanthropy. NAA members believe that strategies to enhance these forms of capital must include many approaches. One approach that American Latino business leaders are uniquely capable of leading is investment in our own community through coordinated philanthropy and public and private strategic collaboration.