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Community Development Financial Institutions in North Carolina
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While the federal government does not provide grants for starting or growing small businesses, one of the mechanisms in place to promote small business growth and economic development is the Community Development Financial Institution Fund managed by the US Department of the Treasury.
Community Development Financial Institutions fall into four categories:
- Community Development Loan Funds
- Community Development Credit Unions
- Community Development Banks - Including Thrifts and Holding Companies
- Community Development Venture Capital Funds
SBDC | 
SCORE | 
WBC |
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CDFI
CAHEC New Markets, LLC
Raleigh
Chatham-Lee Credit Union
Pittsboro
College Heights Credit Union
Fayetteville
Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina
Pembroke
MAY Coalition, Inc.
Spruce Pine
Metropolitan Community Credit Union
Washington
School Workers Federal Credit Union
CHARLOTTE
Self-Help Credit Union
Durham
Self-Help Ventures Fund
Durham
South East Community Credit Union
Wilmington
St. Luke Credit Union
Windsor
Tri County Credit Union
Ahoskie
Victory- Masonic Mutual Credit Union
Winston-Salem
Featured Government Grant Resources
Small Business Administration's Portable Assistance Program
The Small Business Administration has established the Portable Assistance Program wherein they seek to provide grants to Small Business Development Lead Centers that provide services to small businesses in an effort to increase the success of small business establishments and their viability in certain communities where economic hardship is apparent and is attributable to the impact of a major disaster.
National Endowment for the Humanities: National Digital Newspaper Program
The goal of the National Digital Newspaper Program is to crate a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between the years 1836 and 1922, from all of the States and its territories.
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