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title: 8 Good Reads About Entrepreneurship for May and June 2025
description: DreamSpring highlights 8 Good Reads for small business owners focused entrepreneurship for May and June 2025
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# [8 Good Reads About Entrepreneurship for May and June 2025](https://www.dreamspring.org/news/8-good-reads-about-entrepreneurship-for-may-and-june-2025)

 Written by [DreamSpring](https://www.dreamspring.org/news/author/dreamspring) | May 1, 2025

| <https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/04/24/trump-cdfi-fund-community-lenders-banks-credit-unions>   |   | <https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org/2025/03/04/change-labs-offers-navajo-entrepreneurs-small-businesses/>In mid-March, President Donald Trump deemed the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund “unnecessary.” [Listen to how community lenders like DreamSpring are bracing for a possible future without it.](https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/04/24/trump-cdfi-fund-community-lenders-banks-credit-unions) |
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| <https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/trump-order-on-cdfi-fund-puts-small-businesses-and-affordable-housing-at-risk>   |   | [Credit unions, banks, and nonprofits are alarmed](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-07/trump-order-on-cdfi-fund-puts-small-businesses-and-affordable-housing-at-risk) by the executive order targeting Community Development Financial Institutions.  |
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| <https://www.ofn.org/ofn-policy-action-center/> |   | Have a minute? Use Opportunity Finance Network’s tools to [protect the CDFI Fund from cuts in fiscal year 2026](https://www.ofn.org/ofn-policy-action-center/) and make your voice heard. |
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| <https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2025/03/26/philanthropists-like-mackenzie-scott-could-help-nonprofits-survive-a-funding-freeze/>   |   | Philanthropy, like MacKenzie Scott’s private foundations, would have to [increase donations by 282% to make up for government grants losses](https://www.forbes.com/sites/lizelting/2025/03/26/philanthropists-like-mackenzie-scott-could-help-nonprofits-survive-a-funding-freeze/).  |
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| <https://bettermarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BetterMarkets_Community_Banking_Report_04-17-2025.pdf>   |   | Better Markets is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, and independent organization founded in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis to promote public interest in the financial markets. [Read its latest report on community banks.](https://bettermarkets.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/BetterMarkets_Community_Banking_Report_04-17-2025.pdf) |
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| <https://www.sba.gov/national-small-business-week><https://apnews.com/article/macarthur-foundation-endowment-payout-increase-d371dede7ca34830d4653b949e90c647>   |   | [National Small Business Week 2025 is May 4-10](https://www.sba.gov/national-small-business-week), celebrating small entrepreneurs and their outsized contributions to the economy.  |
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| <https://trends.yelp.com/sheconomy-services-report-2025?lid=nij0jzv7wxw0> |   | Yelp’s SHE-CONOMY Services Report illustrates how [female entrepreneurs are dominating in-home services business growth](https://trends.yelp.com/sheconomy-services-report-2025?lid=nij0jzv7wxw0).  |
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| <https://www.sba.gov/article/2025/03/10/sba-announces-made-america-manufacturing-initiative>   |   | The [SBA's new Made in America Manufacturing Initiative](https://www.sba.gov/article/2025/03/10/sba-announces-made-america-manufacturing-initiative) says it will cut regulation, expand access to capital, and create dedicated infrastructure to support a blue-collar boom.  |
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