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Delaware Prosperity Partnership – Start Up Resources

Delaware Prosperity Partnership (DPP) is the nonprofit state economic development agency that leads Delaware’s economic development efforts to attract, grow and retain businesses; build a stronger entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem; and to support private employers in identifying, recruiting and developing talent in Delaware.

Colorado Enterprise Fund

Colorado Enterprise Fund offers a variety of loan solutions up to $1M to business owners that don’t meet traditional financing guidelines and works with start-ups and existing businesses. They are a certified SBA 7(a) Community Advantage and SBA Microloan lender.

PNC Community Micro Equity Fund

Impact Ventures is partnering with The PNC Foundation to provide flexible capital to enterprises that traditionally may not have benefited from the availability of this type of financial resource. The fund is designed to help connect qualified business owners and entrepreneurs in Dallas-Ft Worth with friends and family-type capital. The program will create an ecosystem of support which will include industry sector education and training, working capital, digital founder community, access to Impact Venture’s ‘Founder Hub’ space, and national mentor network.

California Small Business Loan Match

Loan Match makes it easier for California entrepreneurs to find trusted loans by gathering dozens of lenders in one place for a one-stop experience. They empower entrepreneurs through responsible lending, backed by the state of California. Fill out a quick questionnaire to find your ideal loan match today.

The 2023 Small Business Credit Survey is now open!

The Federal Reserve has begun collecting responses to this year’s Small Business Credit Survey. By taking the survey, business owners and business leaders contribute to data that directly informs the Fed, federal government agencies, service providers, policymakers, and others—ultimately benefitting their business and other businesses like theirs. The survey closes November 17, 2023.

Venturize: Resources to grow your small business in the new year!

Learn about loans, retirement and healthcare for small businesses, get connected to trusted providers to help your enterprise grow.

RoadPitch: Connecting Black Founders to Investors

We are a fundraising initiative doing things a little differently. Our focus is on getting black tech founders funded by accredited investors.

My Way to Credit

Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) have been a critical part of JPMorgan Chase’s work to help underserved communities thrive for years.

The Fountain Fund

We provide low-interest loans and financial coaching to formerly incarcerated people, helping them build credit and achieve their self-determined goals.

Prince George’s County Economic Development Corporation

In collaboration with our Small Business Partners, we address a range of needs for growing companies.

FSC First – Creative Business Financing Solutions

Level Up is a program designed to support and empower small and minority-owned businesses in the state of Maryland by providing access to capital, training, coaching, mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Maryland Community Enterprises

At Maryland Capital Enterprises, we strive to be a catalyst for small business success on Maryland’s Eastern Shore & across the state.

Baltimore Community Lending

Baltimore Community Lending offers small business loans to entrepreneurs in Baltimore City, Baltimore County, Anne Arundel County, Carroll County, Anne Arundel County, Harford County, and Howard County who have no relationship with or are unable to get a loan from a bank, and may not have collateral.

Maryland Microenterprise Loan Program

The Maryland Microenterprise Loan Program expands opportunities for microenterprise development, creates new opportunities for small business development and sustains local economies in Maryland communities.

The National Community Reinvestment Coalition Community Investment Fund

NCRC Community Development Fund (CDF) provides loans for struggling small businesses & real estate lending for Black, Latino & LMI communities.

Washington Area Community Investment Fund

Established in 1987, the Washington Area Community Investment Fund’s mission is to increase equity and economic opportunity in underserved communities in the Washington, DC area by investing knowledge, social, and financial capital in low- and moderate-income entrepreneurs.

Appalachian Community Capital

Provides microloans and technical assistance to minority owned and small businesses in the Appalachian region of Virginia.

Latino Economic Development Center

The center will create a $575,000 revolving loan fund to help 45-60 low and moderate income Latino and/or other underserved businesses in Fairfax County. The center will also provide culturally and linguistically specialized technical assistance to borrowers.

Enterprise Development Group

Provides business loans to immigrants, refugees, low income individuals, and people of color in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, DC. who cannot access bank financing. They also provide training and technical assistance to borrowers.

Catalyst Accelerator

Catalyst is a long-format accelerator, providing select central Virginia-based, early-stage startups with nine months of program support.

Black Farmer Equity Fund

Foodcap is funding a more equitable and regenerative local food economy through mission-driven lending and customized business support. In 2021, we launched the Black Farmer Equity Initiative to formalize our work supporting Black farmers.

Downtown Bristol Loan Fund

A community redevelopment agency which provides microloans of $2,500 to $25,000 to emerging businesses in Bristol, Virginia, that cannot access traditional financing sources.

People Incorporated

A community action agency which provides business loans to entrepreneurs in the context of broader economic development and low-income housing programs.

Lighthouse Labs

This technology accelerator provides 3 months of mentorship and support to emerging technology companies. They also provide $20,000 grants to 12 to 20 promising technology companies per year.

Community Business Partnership

At CBP’s Business Finance Center, we make a difference in people’s lives by lending to promising small businesses that are unable to secure financing through traditional means.

Newport News Urban Action Grant Program

Provides loans of up to $250,000 for companies that create new jobs in low- and moderate-income sections of Newport News. Up to $30,000 is available per new job created, or up to $35,000 per new job created in the city’s enterprise zone

Newport News Micro Enterprise Grant Program

This government agency provides grant funding of $500 to $3,500 to micro enterprises in the Southeast portion of the city. The business owner must be low to moderate income or located in a low or moderate income section of the city.

Newport News Virginia Microloan Program

This government agency provides microloans to small businesses including startups that cannot access traditional capital sources. They provide funding of $2,000 to $25,000 at 8% interest rates.

Business Finance Group

Our goal is to build success in small businesses throughout the communities that we serve. This is a flexible program that allows for small financing projects, from $50,000 to $250,000. We specifically target new businesses, veteran owned businesses, or business located in HUB Zones or low-to-moderate income areas.