Microloan Spotlight Archives – Ventures https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/blog/category/microfinance/microloan-spotlight/ Empowering Entrepreneurs with Limited Resources and Unlimited Potential Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:57:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-Ventures-Logo-Square-32x32.jpg Microloan Spotlight Archives – Ventures https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/blog/category/microfinance/microloan-spotlight/ 32 32 Applications Are Open for Ventures’ 2022 Spring Mini – Grants https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/ventures-spring-minigrants-2022/ Fri, 15 Apr 2022 21:56:27 +0000 https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/?p=19045 Each spring since 2020, Ventures has deployed mini-grants to small businesses for support with start-up, growth, and recovery. The Spring Mini-Grant program started in 2020 as an emergency response to the COVID–19 pandemic. The initial Mini-Grant fund was created with generous support from individual donors. In 2021, thanks to a grant from Wells Fargo and […]

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]]> $1 Million in Grants Deployed to Help Diverse Puget Sound Small Businesses Stay Open https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/1-million-in-grants-deployed-to-help-diverse-puget-sound-small-businesses-stay-open/ Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:41:10 +0000 https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/?p=15330 Ventures is excited to announce that over $1,000,000 has been deployed to small businesses in grant funds since the start of the pandemic. In 2020, Ventures distributed $918,000 in direct cash assistance to 299 small and micro businesses in our community. With generous support from Wells Fargo and its Open for Business Fund, we closed […]

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]]> Burien Small Business Stories of Resilience: Emerald City Mattress https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/burien-small-business-emerald-city-mattress/ Mon, 21 Dec 2020 18:19:39 +0000 https://45.55.34.161/~ventures/?p=14860 “We are the owners of our own time. Having your own business gives you the opportunity to do that!” Eight years ago, Celina Aguiniga and her husband decided to stop making mattresses for other companies and start their own small business in Burien. “All of our lives, we have worked for someone else and we […]

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]]> Why Ventures CARES More https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/why-ventures-cares-more/ Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:24:06 +0000 https://45.55.34.161/~ventures/?p=14533 Ventures borrows funds from the Small Business Administration (SBA) as an intermediary lender to then lend to Ventures clients. We have been an SBA intermediary lender for 17 years. With the CARES Act in place, we are pleased that the SBA is making up to six months of principle and interest payments on behalf of […]

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]]> Ventures: Not Your Traditional Lender https://www.venturesnonprofit.org/not-traditional-lender/ Thu, 20 Dec 2018 00:40:51 +0000 https://45.55.34.161/~ventures/?p=11954 At Ventures, we look at the people behind the loans.

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