Social Impact Heroes: How Andy Posner of the Capital Good Fund is using small loans to combat the predatory lending industry

You can’t solve everything; pick the things you can improve and be obsessive about improving them. The world is complex, and social and environmental issues such as predatory lending even more complex. It is tempting as a nonprofit founder to want to solve everything — poverty, climate change, income inequality. But it’s just not possible, philosophically, logistically, financially, or practically. Instead, I’ve worked to achieve an intense focus on one thing: using affordable small-dollar personal loans to uplift individuals and families.

As part of my series about “individuals and organizations making an important social impact”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Andy Posner, founder and CEO of Capital Good Fund. He is taking on the $200 billion predatory lending industry and trying to put poverty out of business one loan at a time. Capital Good Fund is a nonprofit, U.S…