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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.

Community Investment Collaborative (CIC)

Will provide loans and microgrants for small businesses to help start and grow emerging enterprises

Freedom First Federal Credit Union Small Business Fund

Provide $1.5 million in small and microloans with a focus on small loans for women, minority and/or immigrant-owned businesses.

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.

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.