The SBA offers several financing tools to assist small business. With multiple programs, the options available can be confusing. This recourse provides a grid of some of the SBA popular programs and compares them to the Gulf Opportunity Zone (GO...

The SBA 504 Loan Program allows small business access to financing at lower rates than what is available through traditional sources. Lehman Brothers provides a good overview of the SBA program.

Small businesses often struggle to find financing to help support and grow their businesses. This resource is a presentation that explains two of the SBA's most popular programs, the 504 and 7(a) lending programs.

The Small Business Administration, through the 504 lending program, has increased small business' access to capital. This fact sheet explains the 504 lending program in detail.

The Small Business Administration encourages the financing of small business through the SBA 7(a) program. This Main St. 7(a) fact sheet explains the program.

CDFA Fact Sheet providing information on the SBA 504 and the 7(a) Loan Programs including resources to assist finance agencies with implementing them.

The resource features an overview of the SBA 504 loan program, how it works, who handles financing and the details of how the loan program works as well as barriers to the 504 program. The article also provides informative case studies on how the...

This report, Small Business and Micro Business Lending in the United States, for the Data Years 2004-2005, compiles data on institutional lending to small firms. Overall, this is a big business. In June 2005, 8,799 lending institutions reported 21...

An SBA Office of Advocacy report, released in November 2006, examines the impact of state-level taxes on entrepreneurial activity. Among the findings is while top marginal state tax rates on corporate and individual income do not have statistically...

The introduction of credit scoring by banks for small business loans may help increase small businesses’ access to credit, according to a study, A Survey Based Assessment of Financial Institution Use of Credit Scoring for Small Business Lending,...

Conference proceedings and presentations from events held by the US Small Business Administration. Many materials and resources are available for download including trends, policies advocacy, and the relationship between small business and economic...

Presentation by Ross Wood from the Capital CDC (Austin) on the SBA 504 program. This is a large file and may take a few minutes to open and/or download.

The Office of Native American Affairs of the US Small Business Adminstration (SBA) helps American Indians, Native Alaskans and Native Hawaiians seeking to create, develop and expand small businesses have full access to the necessary business...

USDA Rural Development is committed to helping improve the economy and quality of life in all of rural America. USDA Rural Development's financial programs support public facilities and services such as water and sewer systems, housing, health...

SBA's minority development programs are intended to help small businesses be successful for the future. Their services include support for government contractors, access to capital, management and technical assistance, and export assistance.

The National Association of Development Companies (NADCO) is a trade association of Certified Development Companies (CDCs) - companies that have been certified by the Small Business Administration (SBA) to provide funding for small businesses under...

The SBIR program is a competitive initiative designed to encourage small businesses to explore their technological potential.  It provides incentives for small firms to commercialize new ideas.

Presentation by Bill Brice on SBA 504 Loan Program from 2005 CDFA Annual Conference

The Office of Entrepreneurial Development (OED) oversees a network of programs and services that support the training and counseling needs of small business. It is SBA's technical assistance arm with resource partners located throughout the country....

Charlie Bartsch from the Northeast Midwest Institute provides an overview of brownfield financing programs as presented during the 2005 CDFA Annual Conference.