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Iowa Community Capital
915 8th Street, Suite 205
Boone, IA 50036--079
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Iowa Community Capital, (ICC), was incorporated as a non-profit in March 2000. ICC provides small business loans throughout the State of Iowa in an effort to strengthen the social and economic well being of lower income individuals and communities. ICC is an affiliate of the Institute for Social and Economic Development, a non-profit community development corporation with an extensive history and capacity for providing poverty alleviation and community development services.
- Select CDFIs in IA
- Community 1st Credit Union
- Veridian Credit Union
- Ascentra Credit Union
- Dupaco Community Credit Union
- Habitat for Humanity of Iowa, Inc.
- Select Small Business Resources in Iowa
- Sioux City SCORE
- Council Bluffs SCORE
- Iowa Western Community College-Small Business Development Center
- Fort Dodge SCORE
While the federal government does not provide grants for starting or growing small businesses, it does provide a myriad of services to assist entrepreneurs in pursuit of their dreams. One of the mechanisms in place to promote small business growth and economic development are Community Development Financial Institutions.
The U.S Small Business Administration supports both the Small Business Development Center Program and SCORE to provide management assistance to current and prospective small business owners. These programs offer one-stop assistance to individuals and small businesses by providing a wide variety of information and guidance in central and easily accessible branch locations.
Featured Government Grant Resources
Small Business Administration's Small Business Investment Companies
The Small Business Investment Companies Program revolves around the notion of developing privately owned and managed investment companies which will be licenses and regulated by the Small Business Administration, so as to provide equity capital, long term loans, and advisory services to small business requiring such services.
Department of Agriculture: Value Added Producer Grants
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.
Social Entrepreneurship
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5 P’s of Social Entrepreneurship
Monika Mitchell, founder of Good Business New York, asks, Do You Have What it Takes to Be a Social Entrepreneur? She lists down the five P’s essential in every entrepreneur: Passion. Purpose. Plan. Partner. Profit.
