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Community Cultural Wealth And Its Impact On Pandemic Relief Funding For Small Businesses, Brett Smith
Community Cultural Wealth And Its Impact On Pandemic Relief Funding For Small Businesses, Brett Smith
West Chester University Doctoral Projects
This dissertation investigates the impact of social, navigational, familial, aspirational, and resistant capital on the ability of small business owners in Pennsylvania to access relief funding during the COVID-19 pandemic, primarily the period from March 2020 to December 2020. Utilizing Dr. Tara Yosso’s Community Cultural Wealth framework, the study explores systemic barriers within relief initiatives and how they affect marginalized communities.
To meet business owners where they were, and to utilize technologies born as a result of the pandemic, this study utilized Asynchronous Video Interviews (AVI) and online surveys, to capture the lived experiences of these small business owners. Not …