Microloans 101
Looking beyond traditional loans? Learn more about this alternative and increasingly popular lending option.
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6 Capital Funding Sources for Minority Businesses
Uncertain economic times and a tight credit environment call for creative, nontraditional financial solutions for minority entrepreneurs.
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At Clinton Global Initiative, Social Entrepreneurs Weigh Tradeoffs
A debate between two founding fathers of microfinance electrified the sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative in New York City.
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10 Ways to Finance Your Business
Financing a business is always a challenge. Here we've compiled 10 techniques, from the tried-and-true to the experimental.
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How to Secure a Microloan
Advice for small businesses on what to expect when applying for a microloan, including finding a microlender, document preparation, and loan repayment.
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The Kiva Connection: Our Adventure in Microlending
Over the holiday season, Inc.com reached out to our colleagues at Mansueto Ventures -- the company that publishes the print and online editions of Inc... Read more
Microfinance Goes Back to Its Roots?
Major leaders of the global microfinance movement gathered this week at the Microcredit Summit Campa... Read more
The Kiva Connection: Our Adventure in Microlending
Over the holiday season, Inc.com reached out to our colleagues at Mansueto Ventures -- the company that publishes the print and online editions of Inc... Read more
The Kiva Connection: Meet the Entrepreneurs
Welcome to the newest installment of the Kiva Connection. In my Read more
Bernanke Raises Interest In Microlending
Microlending in the U.S. got booster shot of moral support last week, when Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke spoke to an industry gathering in San Ant... Read more
Entrepreneurs to Benefit from Buffett Windfall
Warren Buffett's blockbuster gift of about $31 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is great news for aspiring business owners in the developin... Read more
Microlender Wins Nobel Prize
Economist Muhammed Yunus and the institution he founded, the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, shared the Nobel Prize for Peace, it was Read more
The SBA Expo, Day One
It's morning in DC, and the Washington Hilton is overflowing with small-business owners here for the SBA Expo '05. Hector Barreto, in an early AM convers... Read more
Microloans Filling a Gap
For small businesses looking for quick money, nontraditional sources of financing offer the infusion they often need to start up or stay afloat. A Decembe... Read more
Q
Two microloan experts answer some often asked questions about microloans. Read more
Behind the Boom in Microloans
What are microloans and who's making them? Information on SBA's microlending program and a microenterprise directory. Read more
Seed Capital, Part II: More Microlending
Nonprofits organizations are providing microloans through a SBA program geared to qualified entrepreneurs. Read more
Tapping the 'Microlenders'
New Small Business Administration pilot program helps business owners with restricted access to capital. Read more
Report Casts Doubt on Giving Small Loans to Poor Entrepreneurs
Global microfinance programs may not help reduce overall poverty in the developing world, new research shows. Read more
2005 Budget Axes Funding for Microloans
April 2004 -- The Bush administration's budget for 2005 does not include funding for the U.S. Small Business Administration's (SBA) Micro... Read more
Microlending Offers Opportunity for Financial Start-ups
Dec. 14, 2004 --As microfinance continues to emerge as a means of alleviating poverty in developing countries, it has also become an attra... Read more
Lawmakers Assail SBA's Proposed Budget
Democrats contend that President Bush is shortchanging the Small Business Administration. Read more
Why Loans Won't Save the Poor
Two labor and urban affairs experts explain why microlending programs don't solve all the problems of the disadvantaged. Read more
The SBA's 2008 Budget, Half Full
A couple weeks ago it looked, to the untrained eye, like Congress was heading toward an appropriation for the Small Business Administration, one that plac... Read more
Banking: The Microloan Alternative
A small-business owner explains how she received a microloan and what it took to secure it. Read more
Microloans for All?
The microfinance world is abuzz today after online microlending site Kiva.org kicked off an expansion program that will ... Read more
Uniting Students in Sustainable Microfinance
University of Pennsylvania freshman Charlie Javice seeks to create a microfinance platform with the potential to reach—and educate—thousands of students. Read more
Senate Lawmakers Boost SBA Budget
March 23, 2007 -- The Senate on Friday approved $97 million in extra funding for the Small Business Administration's 2008 budget request,... Read more
Why Microfinancing Works
Banking the unbankable can prove to be a smart investment for cities and states. Read more
Does the SBA Still Matter?
To get past the partisan debate in Washington, we went to a district office to find out what the SBA really does and whom it really helps. Read more
The Kiva Connection: All About Group Loans
In continuing to introduce the entrepreneurs Mansuet... Read more
The Kiva Connection: All About Group Loans
In continuing to introduce the entrepreneurs Mansuet... Read more
All Hat, No Cattle
When it comes to pronouncements about small business, President George W. Bush stands tall, "Entrepreneurs create between 60 and 80% of the new jobs natio... Read more
The Kiva Connection: Business to Business Lending
Last week, Advanta , a major provider of small business credit cards, announced that it has partnered with Kiva.or... Read more
Reach Out and Touch Bangladesh
Chamurkhan, Bangladesh - Mosammat Anwara Begum has three moneymaking enterprises here in the rural hinterlands of Bangladesh: her chickens, her ducks, and... Read more
The Kiva Connection: Business to Business Lending
Last week, Advanta , a major provider of small business credit cards, announced that it has partnered with Kiva.or... Read more
Muhammad Yunas' Small World
The embattled Nobel-Prize winning banker's new movie is coming this week. Read more
Microloans for Women in Business
A new program called FITE provides microloans to women in business. Read more
Inc.'s Adventures in Microlending
A special look at the dynamics of microlending, as seen through the eyes of Kiva borrower Phun Them, a Cambodian silkweaver and small business owner being... Watch video
The Kiva Connection: Meet the Entrepreneurs
Welcome to the newest installment of the Kiva Connection. In my Read more
A VC Bailout, Microloans, and Great Presentations
Should venture capitalists get part of the stimulus package? That's the question posed by Read more
House Approves 2 SBA Bills (With A "Nay" From Ron Paul)
International traders and micro-businesses seeking assistance from the Small Business Administration got a potentially big boost on Tuesday when the House... Read more
Small-Business Funding Boost
The Senate approves an extra $107 million for federal small business programs. Read more
Small Loans, Big Results
Thanks to a microloan from half a world away, a Cambodian rice winemaker named Phal An is ready to expand her growing business. O... Read more
Small Loans, Big Results
Thanks to a microloan from half a world away, a Cambodian rice winemaker named Phal An is ready to expand her growing business. O... Read more
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