To close the digital divide, we need a capital market that powers community broadband. In this new essay for Stanford Social Innovation Review, Connect Humanity’s Chief Investment Officer Brian Vo and impact finance leader Clara Miller make the case for aligning mission-driven capital with the community-based providers best equipped to serve rural and low-income communities.

“Broadband today is essentially a utility with utility-like cash flows and predictable returns… But unless you’re a city with the ability to issue bonds, existing capital markets treat you like a high-risk start-up with rates to match. That needs to change.”

Read the full article at SSIR.