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For Josephine McCrann, movement has always been a way of life. From dancing and playing soccer as a kid to starting yoga as a teenager,...

ASHEVILLE— The Western Women’s Business Center (WWBC) hosted their 8th annual conference, “Me + WWBC, Better Together,” at the A-B...

In early 2020, Teach Tech U founder S. Hope Davis bet on herself. She left teaching to invest into her business full-time, which focused...

The City of Raleigh and Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) are launching the second round of Oak City Biz Labs, a program that

RALEIGH – JPMorgan Chase & Co. has signed on to sponsor the Spanish-speaking courses of Carolina Small Business Development Fund’s...

An Exploratory Framework Leveraging Administrative Data ABSTRACT Business failure is a natural part of the development lifecycle and...

A Theoretical Framework for “Moving the Needle” on CDFI Impact Evaluation Research Report and Brief in Collaboration with AltCap ABSTRACT...

RALEIGH—Throughout February, Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF) will be bringing its Black Entrepreneurship Series to three...

ASHEVILLE— The Western Women’s Business Center (WWBC), a program of Carolina Small Business Development Fund (CSBDF), hosted a...

Evaluation of Lending Outcomes, Updated Annually FINDINGS SUMMARY CSBDF’s releases annual aggregate economic impact numbers for its...

When Elizabeth Garcia moved to Asheville, she was shocked by the lack of Latin American food options. And seeing an opportunity to fill a...

In 2015, Elia Nunez and her husband, Ramon Garcia, decided to turn an expertise in asphalt into their own small business. They invested...

Conference Paper in Collaboration with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,...

For DeAnna Allen, entrepreneurship is a lifelong passion. “It was something that I wanted to do as a little girl, I just didn’t know what...

If you look at Miguel Avila’s resume, you’d see it peppered with experiences in a broad range of industries—marketing, radio, tech,...

Collaboration with faculty from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Published in Community Development Journal ABSTRACT...

The financial losses caused by COVID-19 are extraordinary in scope and have affected every facet of the small business ecosystem.

RALEIGH— Wells Fargo signed on to be Carolina Small Business Development Fund’s (CSBDF) Title Sponsor for fiscal year 2022. Carolina...

Comments to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (Docket ID OCC-2022-002), the Board of Governors of Federal Reserve System...

The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic will reverberate across North Carolina’s local economy for many years.