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Business start up help North Carolina
The Ben Craig Center
The Ben Craig Center improves the Charlotte region by fostering entrepreneurship through an incubator program. This program provides accelerated growth for its client companies, using the combination of physical infrastructure, mentoring and advising, staff expertise, an external business network, and access to capital. City of
Greensboro/Minority and Women's Business Enterprise Program Through the MWBE Program, the City of Greensboro has pledged to: Provide minorities and women equal opportunity to participate in all aspects of City contracting and purchasing programs, and Prohibit discrimination against a person or business in pursuit of these opportunities on the basis of race, color, sex, religion or national origin. Council for Entrepreneurial
Development, CED CED was founded in 1984 to stimulate the creations and growth of high impact companies in the greater Research Triangle area. Their website links to many useful resources in terms of entrepreneurial development. Empowerment Inc.
The Midway Business Center is Chapel Hill-Carrboros first business incubator. The project includes 6,000 square feet of affordable office and retail space, access to shared business equipment and strong support to build locally owned businesses. The Business Center is located in Midway, a historically Black business district connecting Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Good Work Good Work provides a comprehensive long-term business development program that offers loans, technical assistance, and a network of peer support in the Triangle. Membership in Good Work is free. Hand
Made in America We offer links to craftspeople, The Craft Registry, financial referrals and craft business workshops and seminars. Mountain Microenterprise Fund Provides technical assistance and small business and small business loans to women, minorities, and low-income people. NC Cooperative Extension
Service North Carolina Institute for
Minority Economic Development (NCIMED) The North Carolina Institute of Minority Economic Development is a statewide nonprofit organization representing the interest of underdeveloped and underutilized sectors of the state's economic base. The Institute's working philosophy is that--information and business development are critical to wealth creation and to building the asset base among low-wealth sectors of the population. There are two primary ways to accumulate assets in low-resource communities: Increase home ownership Develop profitable business which have the capacity to reinvest in the community North Carolina Office of
Economic Opportunity North Carolina Rural
Economic Development Center, Inc. Technical assistance and micro-loans to low and moderate income persons in rural communities of North Carolina. The program provides loans and business services to self-employed individuals and other very small firms. The Microenterprise Loan Program helps rural people become self-sufficient by providing the opportunity for self-employment and small business growth. It provides loans for start-up or expansion of small businesses by individuals who do not qualify for conventional loans. The program serves all 85 rural counties in North Carolina. Specific emphasis is placed on providing services to rural, low-income, female/minority participants. Microenterprise Loan Program Participants: East Carolina
Microenterprise Fund Foothills
Microenterprise Loan Program Microenterprise Loan
Partnership, Lenoir Community College Mountain Microenterprise Fund The
Mountain Microenterprise Fund (MMF) is a private,
non-profit whose
purpose is to help low and moderate income individuals start or expand
local small businesses. By providing technical assistance and loans, we
act as a resources to entrepreneurs who, although possessing worthy
business ideas, lack either the technical skills or capital resources
to start a small business. Orange County Economic
Development Commission Pitt County
Development Commission Provides business assistance for Pitt County. REAL Enterprises REAL is committed to providing a quality hands-on educational experience for each participant. The experiential process helps REAL students to become entrepreneurs and/or prepare to be successful in work and life. Rural Econonic
Development Center Microenterprise
Loan Program: Small Business Loans To Help Big Ideas Grow Smoky Mountain
Development Corporation Smoky Mountain Development Corporation, a Certified Development Company, in partnership with the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) provides low down payment, fixed rate, long-term financing to established small businesses for the purchase of fixed assets. The SBA 504 Loan Program is, in fact, economic development financing that helps small businesses grow and increase jobs in their communities. Southeastern Community
College & Columbus County Southern Sandhills
Microenterprise Fund Upper Coastal Plains
Council of Governments Yadkin Valley Economic
Development District, Inc. Self-Help Ventures Fund Service Area: Statewide SUSTAINABLE JOBS FUND, LP Mission: "Sustainable Jobs Fund, LP (SJF) is a community development venture capital fund that invests in growing companies that create jobs for low-income citizens. SJF invests from $200,000 to $1,000,000 per company, usually with co-investors for financing rounds of up to $5,000,000. SJF specializes in environmental, manufacturing and sustainable enterprises but will consider any business that offers excellent employment and financial returns. Sustainable Jobs Fund operates from offices in Durham, NC and Philadelphia, PA and invests in the Eastern U.S. Business plan submissions, inquiries and referrals are welcome! Top Business
start up advice
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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 |
