Business Funding Resources
Start Up Business Funding
Provides a list that will help you get going on research for finding any available funds
The Abilities Fund
The Abilities Fund is the first and only nationwide community developer and financial institution targeted exclusively to advancing entrepreneurial opportunities for Americans with disabilities. They link people with disabilities to the resources they need to start or expand microbusinesses and offer small business startup grants.
Artist Trust
Artist Trust supports artists in Washington by providing information to tens of thousands of artists each year, and they have granted more than $2.5 million in direct support to 1,213 of Washington State’s most promising musicians, writers, visual and craft artists, playwrights, choreographers, composers, performers and filmmakers.
Association for Enterprise Opportunity
Provides members with a forum, information, and a voice to promote enterprise opportunity for people and communities with limited access to economic resources
ShoreBank Enterprise Cascadia
Provides financing and business assistance to underserved entrepreneurs, small businesses, and community-building organizations
Community Capital Development
Create a business plan, research potential markets and marketing ideas, discuss management issues with experienced counselors and business assistance providers, and apply for a small business loan
Enterprise for Equity
Enterprise for Equity is a community supported nonprofit that helps low income people turn their ideas and talents into businesses.
Metropolitan Development Council
MDC provides low-income persons in Tacoma Pierce County with technical assistance and loans in support of micro enterprise development.
PASS Plans
Meant to help you get items, services, or skills you need to reach your employment goals
Spokane Neighborhood Action Program (SNAP)
This program combines training, business counseling, and access to capital to give hard-working people business opportunities not otherwise available to them.
Spokane Neighborhood Economic Development Alliance (SNEDA)
SNEDA is a neighborhood-based, nonprofit organization that aims to help businesses improve their profitability and create jobs. They do this by connecting businesses to existing resources and providing financing to entrepreneurs who have been unable to access it through traditional means.
Tri-Cities Enterprise Center
The Tri-Cities Enterprise Center (TEC) offers a program unlike any other in the Columbia Basin. Designed to stimulate economic growth and job creation in the area, TEC offers business and technical support to entrepreneurs, as well as state-of-the-art physical resources to ensure the success of local business start-ups.
Tri-County Economic Development District
The Tri-County Economic Development District (TEDD) is a non-profit organization providing financing and technical assistance to small businesses.
USDA Business & Industry Guaranteed Loan Program
USDA Rural Development works in partnership with the private sector and the community-based organizations to help fund businesses that create or preserve quality jobs and/or promote a clean rural environment. The financial resources of USDA Rural Development are often leveraged with those of other public and private credit source lenders to meet business and credit needs in under-served areas.
Washington CASH
Provides a business training course, microcredit lending services, technical business assistance and peer support to enable low-income women, people with disabilities and new immigrants/refugees to start or expand self-employment ventures
