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Click the link to find the Microenterprise Grant Resources in Your Area: (By the way, if the link is not clickable, click the link on the right-hand side – and you’ll be taken to the page with your state’s microenterprise and small business resources!)
Alabama Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
This page lists the microenterprise, small business resources and more. This page has just been updated to reflect 2010 resources. If by chance you find a link that doesn’t work, please contact us so we can either remove it or get in touch with the appropriate agency. Also, we love to hear from you if you find a new resource that’s not listed in this guide!
Alaska Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Here’s where you’ll find the microenterprise grant and loan resources in the state of Alaska. This page has just been updated to reflect 2010 resources. Please let us know if you find a link that’s not working please let us know so we can get in touch with the appropriate agency or remove it. And please let us know if you hear of a resource we don’t have listed – we’ll even credit you with giving it to us.
Arizona Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
So here are the microenterprise grant and loan and business building resources in the state of Arizona. This page has just been updated to reflect 2010 resources. Please let us know if you find a link that’s not working and we will get in touch with the agency or, failing that, remove it. And if you find a resource we don’t have, please share it with us!
Arkansas Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
If you’re from Arkansas, you’ll love these microenterprise and grant resources we’ve found for you. This page has been updated to reflect 2010 resources. If by chance there’s a link that doesn’t work, let us know so we can get in touch with the appropriate agency to let them know or remove it. And please let us know if you find a new resource not listed here. Thanks!
California Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Here are the Microenterprise grants, loan programs and other business building resources for the state of California. This page has been updated for 2010. If you discover a link that doesn’t work, please let us know so we can either fix it or remove it. And if you know of other resources not on this page, please let us know. Thank you.
Colorado Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Here you go! These are the best microenterprise and small business resources we’ve found for Colorado! This page has been updated for 2010. But if by chance you discover a link that’s not working, please take a minute to let us know so we can contact the agency or get it out of here! We don’t need no broken links! Also, if you find a really cool resource that we don’t have, please let us know… we’ll even tell everyone how cool you are for finding it!
Connecticut Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
This page has been updated to reflect microenterprise and small business resources for the state of Connecticut for 2010. If you discover a link that doesn’t work, please take a second and let us know so we can contact the organization and fix it or delete it. And as always, if you find a resource not listed here, please let us know so we can give you credit for finding it, and add it to the list.
Deleware Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Here are the microenterprise and small business resources available to you if you live in Delaware. If you find a link that’s not working, please let us know and we’ll contact the organization to update it, or remove it. Also if you find a resources we don’t have listed here, please feel free to tell us about it. We’ll not only give you credit for finding it, but we’ll add it to the list for other entrepreneurs too.
District of Columbia Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
This is the updated list for 2010 for microenterprise and small business resources in the Distict of Columbia. If you find a link doesn’t work, please let us know and we’ll either contact the appropriate agency or make sure its removed from our list. Also, please feel free to suggest other resources if you know of them!
Florida Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The microenterprise and small business resource page for Florida has been updated for 2010. If you find a link that doesn’t work, let us know. We will contact the appropriate organization or remove it from this list. And if you know of any new resources, please let us know so we can add them.
Georgia Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Click the link above to find the updated microeterprise and small business resources for the state of Georgia. If you find a link on that page that doesn’t work, please take the time to contact us, and we’ll either get in touch with the appropriate agency to update it or remove it from our list. We welcome new resources, just let us if you find one that’s not on our list.
Hawaii Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The microenterprise and small business resources for Hawaii have been updated for 2010. Click the link to see what’s available in your area. Let us know if there are resources not on our list so we can add them, and of course, if there’s a link that doesn’t work, let us know so we can take appropriate action.
Idaho Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Here are the 2010 updated microenterprise and small business resources for the state of Idaho. If you know of other resources not on our list, please let us know so we can add them. Please report any broken links so we can fix them.
Illinois Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Check out these updated for 2010 microenterprise and small business resources for the state of Illinois. Please let me know if you find broken links so I can fix them or remove them, and if you know of any new resources, let me know and I’ll add them right away.
Indiana Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
If you live in Indiana, check out the microenterprise and small business resources here to help you build your business. I try to stay on top of the links, so let me know if you find a broken one, will you? And if you know of additional resources, let me know that too.
Iowa Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The page of Iowa microenterprise and small business resources has been updated for 2010. Please let me know if there are broken links and we’ll fix them. And if you have new resources, let us know.
Kansas Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Kansas microenterprise and small business resources page has been updated for 2010. New resources will be added as we find them.
Kentucky Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Microenterprise and small business resources in the state of Kentucky have now been updated for 2010. You might want to bookmark the page, because as we find new resources, we’ll be adding them.
Louisiana Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Check out the microenterprise and small business resources available to you in 2010. Make sure to bookmark the page, because as we find new resources, we’ll add them to the page. You can also sign up for our newsletter and free 7-part grant finding course, and we’ll send you an email when we update the site.
Maine Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments is a regional planning agency serving the Western Maine communities of Androscoggin, Franklin, and Oxford Counties. AVCOG is a not for profit, 501(c)(3) agency, exclusively owned and operated by member communities, who join on a voluntary basis. An Executive Committee sets policy and oversees the operations of the Council, in consultation with appointed representatives from member communities and counties.
Maryland Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The City of Baltimore Development Corporation (BDC) is a 501(c)(3) corporation contracted with the City of Baltimore to provide economic development services. With a mission to retain and expand existing employers and attract new ones, we work collaboratively within City government, and with private partners, to deliver services that will help your business grow.
Massachusetts Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Allston Brighton CDC creates affordable housing, greenspace, a healthy local economy, avenues for economic self-sufficiency, and increased understanding among and between our neighborhood’s diverse residents.
Michigan Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Albion Economic Development Corporation works to recruit and assist business and industry in the greater Albion area. We seek innovative, collaborative, solutions to modern business challenges, always mindful of the rich natural, economic, and cultural heritage of our community.
http://www.albionedc.org
Minnesota Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Arrowhead Economic Opportunity Agency (AEOA) was incorporated in April, 1965, as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization and established as a Community Action Program (CAP) for the northeast Minnesota counties of St. Louis, Lake, and Cook. Service delivery for some programs has extended to the four neighboring counties of Aitkin, Carlton, Itasca, and Koochiching.
Mississippi Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Golden Triangle Enterprise Center is a high technology incubator program located in the Mississippi Research and Technology Park in Starkville, Mississippi.
Missouri Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Center for Emerging Technologies (CET) provides the specialized facilities, knowledgeable support services, entrepreneur training programs, and access to capital needed to establish and develop next generation medical and other advanced technology companies.
Montana Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private, non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy’s Indian Reservations. Bear Paw works toward this goal by coordinating economic development planning and project implementation among its member entities, assisting local governments in planning public works and coordinating public and private investments, and by engaging in research, planning and advisory functions appropriate to the attainment of its objectives.
Nebraska Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Information about community and business development in Alma.
Nevada Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The official website of Clark County, Nevada, containing information about business and community development.
http://www.accessclarkcounty.com
New Hampshire Microenterprise and Small Business
Today, through its activities the Council continues to strive for a climate that understands not only what sustainable economic is and how it works, but the importance of planning and maintaining the economic infrastructure and well being of our communities and region.
New Jersey Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
ACCION New York and New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that contributes to the economic development of the New York metropolitan region by providing loans and advisory services to individuals and small businesses that do not have access to traditional sources of credit.
New Mexico Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
ACCION New Mexico is a nonprofit organization that increases access to business credit, makes loans, and provides training which enable emerging entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and be catalysts for positive economic and social change.
http://www.accionnewmexico.org/
New York and New Jersey Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
ACCION New York and New Jersey is a nonprofit organization that contributes to the economic development of the New York metropolitan region by providing loans and advisory services to individuals and small businesses that do not have access to traditional sources of credit.
North Carolina Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Ben Craig Center is a non-profit corporation in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Charlotte that provides incubation, education and advisory services to our region’s 8,000 small manufacturing, distribution and service companies. The purpose of the Center is to help our region’s small businesses reach their full potential by providing three distinct offerings – an Incubator Program, Education and Community events and Advisory services.
North Dakota Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The mission of the Dakota CDC is to bring a variety of finance tools to North Dakota businesses, working in conjunction with financial institutions and economic development organizations in communities across the state.
Ohio Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
ACEnet focuses on small businesses, including start-ups, primarily in the food, agriculture, artisan and wood sectors, giving priority to those who are lower income and reside in Appalachian Ohio.
Oklahoma Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Acorn Growth Companies is a private, enterprise development firm that accelerates the growth and evolution of small, niche-specific companies through thoughtful investment.
http://www.acorngrowthcompanies.com
Oregon Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Because small businesses sometimes require additional support for loan requests, we partner with local government agencies to provide the maximum options for your small business.
Pennsylvania Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Assets Lancaster is dedicated to serving low and moderate income persons in Lancaster County with a strong entrepreneurial spirit, helping them succeed in realizing their dreams of self employment and economic independence.
http://www.assetslancaster.org
Puerto Rico Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The MBEC is the Minority Business Development Center, a federally funded program by the Minority Business Development Agency, United States Department of Commerce, operated by the Puerto Rico Products Association and covering the whole island, including Vieques and Culebra, under a cooperative and economic agreement with the Federal Commerce Department through its Minority Business Development Agency.
Rhode Island Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Center for Women & Enterprise (CWE) is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping women start and grow their own businesses. CWE is a national leader among women’s business development agencies.
South Carolina Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
BCI Lending provides the financial assistance needed for expansion, purchase of fixed assets such as real estate or equipment, business acqusitions, replenishing working capital or even debt restructuring for owner-managed businesses throughout the Southeast.
South Dakota Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
Lakota Funds is a community development organization actively promoting the socio-economic sustainability of Oglala Lakota Oyate (people) on the Pine Ridge Reservation. It’s culturally appropriate strategies include business loans, technical assistance and targeted community and business development.
Tennessee Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce has a fairly simple mission: To promote regional business growth that creates prosperity and enhances quality of life.
http://www.chattanooga-chamber.com
Texas Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The mission of ACCION Texas is to provide credit to small businesses that do not have access to loans from commercial sources. Through its loans and services, ACCION Texas helps microentrepreneurs strengthen their businesses, stabilize and increase their incomes, create additional employment and contribute to the economic revitalization of their communities.
Utah Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
CEDO, the Commission for Economic Development in Orem, is a non-profit organization that serves as an advocate for Orem businesses. The CEDO staff works closely with Orem business professionals and Orem City officials to promote the economic vitality of Orem.
Vermont Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
BROC – Community Action in Southwestern Vermont is committed to empower, support and educate individuals and families to be self-sufficient in their employment, homes and communities through family stabilization and development; education, training and job creation; affordable housing; and expanding community awareness and advocacy in a nurturing environment of respect and dignity ever mindful of cultural diversity.
Virginia Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Partnership was formed in response to an identified need for small business technical assistance and financing services, particularly to low-moderate income and disadvantaged individuals, including minorities, women and the disabled. While providing high quality training and counseling to all small businesses, the Partnership seeks to provide a financing alternative to benefit those unable to attract a commercial loan or other traditional source of funds.
Washington Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Black Dollar Task Force is a 501(c)(3) organization founded in Seattle, Washington in November of 1988 with the intent of promoting the principles of self-help and self-determination through economic justice. The members and supporters of the Task Force are confident in our movement to decrease social service dependency through the revitalization of our community.
West Virginia Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The Center for Economic Options (CEO) is an independent non profit organization in West Virginia. CEO works with entrepreneurs and innovators who share a commitment to development that is socially, economically and environmentally sustainable. Our main program strategy is to serve as a catalyst for local “green business” activity – helping people develop businesses that are environmentally-friendly and are not limited to any particular market.
http://www.centerforeconomicoptions.org
Wisconsin Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
ADVOCAP, Inc. is a private, non-profit Community Action Agency serving low income people in Green Lake, Fond du Lac, and Winnebago Counties in East Central Wisconsin.
Wyoming Microenterprise and Small Business Resources
The State of Wyoming created the Wyoming Business Council to focus public and private efforts to build a strong job creation base in the new economy with manufacturing and technology as core competencies while strengthening the existing business and industry groups under energy, agriculture, tourism and travel.
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