Sentences with phrase «community access capital»

PORTLAND, Ore. — Sept. 17, 2014 — On Sept. 15, the Mt. Hood Cable Regulatory Commission voted to approve a $ 300,000, three - year Community Access Capital grant for Multnomah County Library to begin creating a «makerspace» called the Rockwood Innovation Station.

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The decline of community banks and the collapse of the market for home - equity loans may have made it harder for would - be entrepreneurs to get access to capital.

But most startup communities around the country and world don't have anywhere near the same access to private capital.

While there have long been small players in the venture capital community who defied the stats and were able to attract some LP money, they tended to be relegated to the fringes of the industry, with less access to sizable funds and the buzziest companies.

Here's a look at how the SEC's vote to remove the ban on general solicitation will impact access to capital in the startup community.

At the helm of the San Diego - based community development corporation, Small Business Finance, Kurt Chilcott works to help small - business owners get access to capital, especially through government - backed loan programs.

In particular, Austin points to three key problem areas: access to capital, formal education, and personal relationships within the business community.

While the new technology promises to make cash management quicker and more cost - effective, so far it does little to address the small - business community's thorniest financial problem: its lack of access to capital.

8,915), and hundreds of other small Colorado communities will have access to innovation - fueling capital that could change their local economy, or change all of our lives.

«Through this increased investment and connections with community lending organizations, we are making meaningful strides toward increasing access to capital for small businesses, as well as helping more business owners get the coaching and educational resources they need to succeed financially long - term.»

Under Mr. Fairbank's leadership, Capital One has demonstrated a strong commitment to philanthropy and volunteerism, supporting a number of area programs focused on community redevelopment and youth education, including DC Cares, the DC College Access Program and Junior Achievement.

With Personal Capital, their target threshold at $ 100,000 is much lower given their lower operating costs, thereby bringing access to the mass affluent community.

With based in Abuja, the Tangent Eco-Innovation Hub provides employment opportunities and networking access to an exclusive community of researchers, renewable energy experts and venture capital partners that offer optimal opportunities towards the development of Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) in Africa.

Lack of access to central and coastal communities, beyond Roseau, the country's capital, and Melville, have hampered needs assessments and humanitarian relief efforts.

The vision of the Initiative is to close the gap in access to venture capital for underrepresented segments of our community regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation or socioeconomic status.

A vibrant small business community depends on access to capital.

INVENTURE$ will bring research, innovation, capital access, commercialization, experiential learning and entrepreneurial communities together.

KCSourceLink for years has researched the area's challenges with access to growth capital, but the community has made significant strides in the last 12 months, Meyers said.

That, in fact, in many places, the operations of transnational capital — far from extending access to property, creating general prosperity, promoting democratic institutions, or advancing the causes of law and justice — destroy functioning local economies and communities, sustain and deepen poverty among those capital reduces to the commodity of cheap labor, exploit unjust labor systems, support despotisms, take advantage of conditions in regions too poor to impose or enforce environmental protections (for their ecosystems or their peoples), and are often complicit in the procedural abuse of persons who can hope for no legal redress?

These capital improvements help with the renovation of youth facilities that provide safe havens for our most vulnerable communities, while also enhancing and improving access to resources for those who need it the most.

Cuomo's office said that grants made available through the program «will be awarded through a competitive process, with priority given to nonprofits with State contracts that provide direct services in high - need communities, particularly smaller nonprofits and nonprofits that lack access to other capital funding opportunities.»

Saratoga County Capital Resource Corporation — The Saratoga County Capital Resource Corporation is a local development corporation that promotes the community and the creation of jobs in the non-profit and for profit sectors by developing and providing programs for not for profit organizations, manufacturing and industrial businesses and other entities to access low interest rate tax - exempt and non-tax-exempt financing.

With crucial support and active engagement of the private sector, however, impoverished dryland communities will be able to take advantage of transformative communications technologies and even gain access to capital from abroad.

London, England About Blog London Wildlife Trust is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces, engaging London's diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, campaigning, volunteering and outdoor learning.

It is leveraging on the intangible assets that a community already has, which is any combination of social capital, access to natural resources, cultural assets, human capital such as local leadership, stakeholder capital and indigenous knowledge.

He examines statutes and regulations in five states with significant rural populations — Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, and Ohio — and brings to light policies and practices that prevent charters from opening in rural communities, constrain access to human capital, and create significant disparities in funding.

The following community partners supported the development of the program: Austin Area Urban League Austin College Access Network ACC's College Destination Center Austin Independent School District Austin Young Chamber Bank of America Breakthrough Austin City of Austin College Forward Con Mi Madre Del Valle Independent School District E3 Alliance Frost Bank Generation TX Greater Austin Black Chamber of Commerce Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce Hispanic Scholarship Consortium KLRU Longhorn Center for School Partnerships New York Life Office of Mayor Steve Adler SOS Leadership Teach for America Austin Alumni TG The Reintegration Economic Assistance Workforce Solutions — Capital Area YouthLaunch

By providing highly accountable charter schools with access to inspiring facilities and affordable capital financing, CSDC is creating hope and opportunity for families and in communities where more school choice options are most vitally needed, including $ 50 million in new support for 13 schools in just this past year.

This network transforms status quo systems and approaches in education by sharing ownership of the change efforts, engaging communities in defining and working toward success, serving as role models for young people to pursue roles with influence and risk, and accessing financial capital and power brokers to develop new solutions.

Through its Capital Area Promise (CAP) Scholars program, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation is partnering with local nonprofits to support college access and success through three avenues:

I think it's also working through inabilities to access capital funding, funding for transportation, those are also key things that need to be in place for charter schools to really take hold in a community.»

Inside the fantasy genre, I try to present women who need to solve real problems like having no voice in community, or no right to work; no access to capital to start a business.

«This year we are continuing that tradition by creating a place at BEA for the growing book publishing startup community to gain access to traditional publishers and top venture capital and investment professionals.»

This enabled large access to capital for commercial borrowers at lower rates than conventional financing such as community banks or private investors.

A small business owner shouldn't have to be a financial expert to complete a loan application; and small business lenders (like OnDeck) are embracing a new paradigm to provide business owners with efficient access to the capital they need to build growing businesses that strengthen communities and create jobs.

Community Associations — including condominium and homeowners associations — need access to capital to pay for large scale projects.

Arts Outreach provides the community access to the creative capital available at UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts.

However, we will look for ways to support and nurture their development, through offering commercial and market knowledge to help them refine their product offering, access to a potential user community, whether within A&O or with clients, legal awareness programmes and helping them obtain mentoring and access to alternative sources of growth capital.»

Fleet Street Law is now proud to offer microcredit loans to sole practitioners who are in financial need through a partnership with Access Community Capital Fund (CCF).

London, England About Blog London Wildlife Trust is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces, engaging London's diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, campaigning, volunteering and outdoor learning.

London, England About Blog London Wildlife Trust is the only charity dedicated solely to protecting the capital's wildlife and wild spaces, engaging London's diverse communities through access to our nature reserves, campaigning, volunteering and outdoor learning.

Congress put this anti-redlining law on the books in 1977, but it wasn't until the mid-1990s that CRA ratings became public and community groups began to voice concerns that bank mergers and expansions would leave poorer neighborhoods without access to capital.

In the second transaction, Mission Capital accessed the Los Angeles office of an international commercial bank, which provided $ 9.98 million in first - mortgage financing for three Siegel Suites communities.

On April 13, Bridgewater Capital announced plans for Mill Creek Place, an active adult community of townhomes on 38 acres in Staten Island, N.Y., with easy ferry access to Manhattan.

The President's plan is centered on four core principles for reform: putting private capital first, ending the failed Fannie / Freddie business model and protecting the taxpayers, ensuring broad access to the 30 - year fixed rate mortgage in good times and bad, and preserving the American dream of affordable homeownership for all qualifying borrowers in every community while at the same time ensuring sustainable rental options are widely available.