Saving with Sistas

The Lab at ConnCORP is a learning & knowledge center: a laboratory for new ideas about business ownership & entrepreneurship. Through our business incubator and programming, we facilitate wealth creation and financial security within the urban community, forming the ecosystem for minority business growth and increased home ownership.

Saving with Sistas is a quarterly investment roundtable for women of color designed to overcome the intimidation many feel about saving, budgeting, and investing in capital markets. Hosted by: ConnCORP Chief Investment Officer, Anna Blanding.

Anna Blanding oversees the Economic Justice Fund as well as the organization’s Qualified Opportunity Zone Fund. Anna is passionate about transformative capital and uses her background in private capital markets, endowment management, policy, and philanthropy to create meaningful public-private partnerships, equitable communities, and access for diverse fund managers. Prior to ConnCORP, Anna was Senior Investment Officer at Choate Rosemary Hall and deployed capital across all liquid and illiquid asset classes. Prior to Choate, Anna was an Investment Officer at The Annie E. Casey Foundation, a $4B endowment where she focused on the $2B Private Capital portfolio with a concentration on venture capital, private equity, real estate, natural resources, and private credit. She also worked on Annie Casey’s $125M Social Impact portfolio. Anna is a trustee and investment committee member of The William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund, a family foundation that focuses on education and equity. She serves on the executive committee of Capital for Change, a CT based Community Development Financial Institution with $140M AUM that invests in affordable housing, businesses, and nonprofits in New England.