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Business start up help Colorado
Colorado Alliance
for Microenterprise Initiatives What is CAMI? The Colorado Alliance for Microenterprise Initiatives (CAMI) is a coalition of micro-enterprise development organizations and practitioners dedicated to providing entrepreneurs in under-served communities the opportunity and the resources to become self-sufficient through private enterprise. [Links to member organizations from website.] Colorado
Enterprise Fund Colorado Enterprise Fund (CEF) is a non-profit community development financial institution founded in 1976 to help small businesses. We provide small business loans up to $50,000 to entrepreneurs who are unable to obtain financing from traditional sources. The business must be located in Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Denver, Douglas Elbert, El Paso, Jefferson, Larimer, and Weld County. Colorado Housing &
Finance Authority CHFA's Business Finance Division offers small business loan programs that provide financing for working capital, machinery, equipment, owner-occupied real estate, and in some cases, refinancing of existing debt. Colorado Lending
Source “Front Range Regional Economic Development Corporation, d.b.a. Colorado Lending Source (CLS), is a private, nonprofit, community based organization that assists small businesses access attractive, fixed-rate, long-term financing used for real estate and equipment expansion projects.” Colorado Minority
Business Office “The mission of the Minority Business Office (MBO) is to promote development of existing and new minority businesses across the state with emphasis on rural areas that do not have access to information and technical help.” Link
to Regional Revolving Loan Funds Colorado's Community Development Block Grant Revolving Loan Fund Program Colorado Business
Resource Guide Colorado Women's
Economic Development Council "The Women's Economic Development Council promotes the growth of existing and new Colorado women-owned enterprises across the state, with an emphasis in rural areas where access to resources may be limited. As an advocate, the office provides leadership in fostering an environment that fully capitalizes on and benefits from the significant economic contributions of women entrepreneurs." Cripple Creek
Economic Development Loan Fund Gold Camp Development "The Gold Camp Economic Development Corporation serves the City of Cripple Creek in the areas of identifying increased employment opportunities, as well as nongaming businesses and services. GCDC wants to help attract businesses to our community and assists existing businesses with their expansion plans." DenverBlackPages.Com “To empower Colorado’s African American small businesses by providing a comprehensive tool by which to market their products and services to a targeted audience. We also strive to be the Internet marketing tool of choice for Colorado’s County, City and State Organizations and Corporations that desire to reach Colorado’s African American residents, visitors, and small businesses.” Denver Enterprise Center "The Denver Enterprise Center is a small business incubator and a member of the National Business Incubator Association." Denver
Revolving Loan Fund El
Pueblo Interdevelopment Corporation (EPIC) El Pueblo Inter-Development Corporation provides loans to existing and start-up business who don't meet conventional banking underwriting criteria. These loan programs are intended to assist qualifying business borrowers in growing their businesses to such a point that they eventually meet conventional lending criteria. Entrepreneurial
Law Center Mission: The center's mission is to connect the law school, its faculty, and its students with the flourishing Colorado entrepreneurial community. The center complements the school's unique image as an institution that appreciates, supports and encourages those virtues associated with the American West - independence, self-sufficiency, and perseverance in the face of difficulty, some of the same virtues associated with entrepreneurs. Fitzsimons
Redevelopment Program Ft. Collins
Business Incubator The Incubator accomplishes this goal by building a valuable cache of top quality business professionals and lavishing these individuals on a few good companies. All of the companies invited to join the incubator have tremendous potential--they just need a little help. Greeley/Weld
Economic Development Action Partnership, Inc. (EDAP) Communities throughout Weld County are actively pursuing business opportunities that will strengthen and enhance the local economy. We are prepared to work closely with businesses to meet specific needs and to make a location/expansion a reality. Guaranty Bank
& Trust Company “Member of the Colorado Alliance for Microenterprise Initiatives (CAMI), Bank and Trust work hard to understand your business' financial needs, and then match those needs with the best loan solution. Customized loan solutions for small, closely held businesses. Services provided include: SBA lending, operating lines of credit, and term debt for long-term borrowing.” Mi Casa Resource Center
for Women, Inc. · Entrepreneurial training is provided through the either the Evening Entrepreneurial Training Program or Project success. Individuals are trained on how to start a business and develop Business plans with micro-loans available to program graduates. · Micro Business
Development Corporation Microbusiness Development Corp is a Colorado not-for-profit organization that provides Microenterprise Support Services, including access ot capital (from $500 to $30,000); access to venture capital; business training and eevelpment; technical assistance; andopportunities for personal growth for Colorado entrepreneurs. URL: http://www.microbusiness.org/ Pikes Peak Regional
Development Corporation To enhance economic opportunity for all citizens in El Paso and Teller Counties by providing financial assistance: to create and maintain jobs; to promote start-up, survival, and growth of businesses; to assist in redevelopment; and to diversify and strengthen the Counties' economic base within the limits of the resources available to the organization The Pueblo Business and
Technology Center As an incubator, we encourage company growth in a professional office environment with low overhead. In addition to space for service and light assembly type work, we provide the networking potential of other new and small business providers. The Pueblo County
Community Development Corporation (PCCDC) The Program is oriented to supply "gap" financing which provides an additional funding mechanism to businesses that do not fully qualify for conventional financing such as banks and the SBA. Region 9 Economic
Development District of Southwest Colorado The Region 9 Economic Development District of Southwest Colorado provides direct loans to businesses as well as providing information and loan packaging assistance for SBA and other publicly assisted business finance programs. Target industries are basic manufacturing and exporting, high tech software and telecommunications companies, and agricultural processing. San Luis Valley Development
Resources Group The
mission of the San Luis Valley Development Resources Group is to
promote and facilitate Southeast Colorado Enterprise
Development (SECED) SECED, Inc. is a non-profit economic/community development organization created by the Southeast Colorado Local Governments to provide assistance including low interest loans to new and expanding businesses in Baca, Bent, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, and Prowers counties. Top Business
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The Food Business
If
you are thinking of entering the food business, it may be
worth considering the following market trends that could affect
future growth and the outcome of your business.....
Popular Healthy Food and Recipes ....dangerous foods etc....Environmental Impact
The
principal emission sources are methane from the stomachs of cows and
nitrous oxide from land to which fertilizer has been applied.
There is a lack of effective technical solutions to reduce these emissions. On the other hand, changed food habits can have a great impact. If beef is replaced by chicken, emissions decrease by 90 per cent, and if beef is replaced by beans the reduction is 99 per cent. (see full report)
Earth
Markets:
Farmers’ markets that have been established according to guidelines that follow the Slow Food philosophy.
Eco Design for Business Accept the Environmental Challenge!There is a great opportunity for businesses to create a new and positive agenda, where the focus is on all the good that companies can do for the environment, society and economic growth.ECO DESIGN Resourcesmore info |
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