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National Community Investment Fund
135 S LaSalle St Suite 3025
Chicago, IL 60603--429
www.ncif.org
National Community Investment Fund (NCIF) is a certified CDFI and CDE intermediary that invests equity and holds debt in banks and credit unions.
- Select CDFIs in IL
- American Bancorp of Illinois, Inc.
- IBC Bancorp, Inc.
- Southern Illinois Coal Belt Champion Community, Inc.
- First Eagle Bank
- Community Plus Federal Credit Union
- Select Small Business Resources in Illinois
- Jane Addams Hull House/Parkway Community House - Small Business Development Center
- Lake County Partnership for Economic Development, Inc.
- SIU-E/ East St Louis SBDC
- Rock Valley College - Small Business Development Center
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
Program for Investment in Micro-Entrepreneurs Technical Assistance
The Program for Investment in Micro-Entrepreneurs Technical Assistance Program is designed to decrease the number of disadvantaged micro-entrepreneurs by helping them enhance their management capabilities, by way of providing them with technical assistance and training in the areas concerning activities that are associated with starting, expanding and growing their businesses.
Small Business Administration's Recovery Capital Loans
The Recovery Capital Loans Program provides financial assistance to small business with less than 500 employees to obtain a deferred payment loan from the agency, in order to meet existing debt payments, thereby giving the business the opportunity to refocus their business strategy.
Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight
Awakening the Entrepreneurial Spirit
Amit Kataria, who lost his lower limbs to polio, has launched his social enterprise, Rural Organisation for Social Empowerment (ROSE) to create employment for at least one member of every household in Haryana, North Central India.
