Vitrina Solidaria’s Valentine’s Pop-Up Sale to support 22 local microenterprises
February 8, 2024
Local entrepreneurs will offer unique gifts at the event, which will take place at Banco Popular Foundation. #NewsIsMyBusiness
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Vitrina Solidaria hosts ‘Pop-Up Sale Mom’s Edition’ to support entrepreneurs
May 10, 2023
Annual event offers business experience for program participants and showcases products from more than 25 microenterprises. #NewsismyBusiness
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USDA opens call for loan, grant applications to support rural microenterprises
December 31, 2020
The US Department of Agriculture has opened a call for applications for loan and grants to support rural microenterprises, through its Rural Microentrepreneur Assistance Program (RMAP). RMAP provides loans and grants to a nonprofit entity or institution of higher education — known as a Microenterprise Development Organization (MDO) — to establish revolving loan funds to […]
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More funding available for Puerto Rico’s micro-, small businesses
March 25, 2020
Puerto Rico Gov. Wanda Vázquez announced that the application process — online or by phone — for the Small Business Financing program, which will offer grants and loans to assist micro and small businesses in their recovery after Hurricanes Irma and María, begins today. In its initial recovery subsidy phase, SBF will grant up to […]
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P.R. Community Foundation grants $154K to 7 micro incubators
October 26, 2018
Community microenterprise incubators are promoters of economic activity in communities by facilitating the entrepreneurship process of its members.
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Grameen P.R. seeks to raise $3M to help 2,500 women entrepreneurs
April 20, 2018
Nonprofit microfinance organization Grameen Puerto Rico is bringing together leading financial institutions and other partners to galvanize investment in local low-income women entrepreneurs in the wake of the devastation caused by Hurricane María last year.
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EDB cements efforts to support P.R. microenterprises
February 24, 2016
As part of an economic development initiative with special focus on business development in special communities, as well as to promote the establishment of a model toward economic self-sufficiency, the Economic Development Bank and the Office the General Coordinator for Socioeconomic Financing (OFSA) formalized a partnership to establish a line of support for small businesses that sprouting in those areas.
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