Next Street Financial LLC is a merchant bank founded to serve high-performing, high-potential inner city small businesses and entrepreneurs across the U.S. Next Street selects businesses that are poised for growth and, in the context of a long-term trusted advisor relationship, provides them with flexible financing and Wall Street-quality advice to ensure they achieve their full potential. MORE >

Our PERSPECTIVES section currently hosts guest editor Bob Weissbourd. A nationally-known expert in economic development, Bob argues for a paradigm shift in how we craft urban policy, aiming for inclusive prosperity rather than battling over strategy. Click here to read Old Conflicts: New Opportunities.

Next Street is pleased to welcome Vista Higher Learning, a leading publisher of language textbooks and online programs for the college and high school markets. Founded in 1999, VHL’s initial products – including Vistas, an introductory college Spanish textbook, and Panorama, a briefer text based on Vistas – are now among the most widely adopted introductory college Spanish programs. Next Street is providing VHL with a combination of strategy, talent, advertising and marketing services.

Next Street welcomes Tim Greenfield as partner to head our strategic advisory practice in New York. Tim comes to Next Street by way of General Electric and McKinsey & Company. As a business owner himself, Tim brings an entrepreneurial spirit that will serve Next Street – and our small business clients – extremely well. MORE >