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Intermediary Loan Program is sponsored by SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Three year pilot program in which SBA made direct loans of up to $1 million at an interest rate of 1 percent to up to 20 nonprofit lending intermediaries each year, subject to the availability of funds. Term of ILP loans is for a maximum period of 20 years with deferred payments for the first two years. Intermediaries use the ILP loan funds to make loans of up to $200,000 to startup, newly established, or growing small business concerns. No small business (including affiliates) may have more than $200,000 outstanding under this program at one time. This listing is currently active. Program number: 59.062. Last updated on 2026-01-21.
Application snapshot: target deadline rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows; published funding information Funding amounts vary by year and recipient.; eligibility guidance Applicants to the pilot program were required to be a private nonprofit entity with not less than one year of experience of making loans to startups, newly established or growing small businesses. The applicant must have directly funded the loans and not simply provided referrals to loans made by another entity. If an applicant is made up of a consortium of organizations, each member of the consortium must be individually eligible. Intermediaries that participate in SBA's microloan program were not eligible to become ILP intermediaries. However, affiliates of microloan intermediaries may have applied. Refer to Federal Register Notice Vol. 76, No. 63, dated Friday, April 1, 2011 starting on page 18007 for additional information. Eligible applicant types include: Small Business Person.
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Based on current listing details, eligibility includes: Applicants to the pilot program were required to be a private nonprofit entity with not less than one year of experience of making loans to startups, newly established or growing small businesses. The applicant must have directly funded the loans and not simply provided referrals to loans made by another entity. If an applicant is made up of a consortium of organizations, each member of the consortium must be individually eligible. Intermediaries that participate in SBA's microloan program were not eligible to become ILP intermediaries. However, affiliates of microloan intermediaries may have applied. Refer to Federal Register Notice Vol. 76, No. 63, dated Friday, April 1, 2011 starting on page 18007 for additional information. Eligible applicant types include: Small Business Person. Applicants should confirm final requirements in the official notice before submission.
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7(j) Technical Assistance is sponsored by SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. The purpose of the program is to provide Business Development Assistance for Small Disadvantaged Businesses. SBA performs this mission by entering into grants, cooperative agreements and contracts with qualified service providers who have the capability to provide business development assistance to eligible businesses and individuals under Sections 7(a)(11), 7(j)(10) and 8(a) of the Small Business Act. This listing is currently active. Program number: 59.007. Last updated on 2026-01-20. Application snapshot: target deadline rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows; published funding information Funding amounts vary by year and recipient.; eligibility guidance Educational institutions, public or private organizations and businesses, individuals, State and local governments, Indian tribes and lending and financial institutions and sureties that have the capability to provide the required business development assistance. Eligible applicant types include: Tribal, Municipality or Township government (inclusive of cities, towns, boroughs (except in Alaska), and villages), Local, State, Federally Recognized Indian/Native American/Alaska Native Tribal Government, Nonprofit Organization, U.S. State Government (including the District of Columbia), For-Profit Organization. Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
Prime Technical Assistance is sponsored by SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. To increase the number of microenterprises and to enhance the management capability of microentrepreneurs in starting, expanding and/or growing their business; to provide training and capacity building services to enhance existing Microenterprise Development Organizations (MDOs) and expand the universe of MDOs that provide microenterprise development training programs and services; and to fund research and development of best practices for training and technical assistance consistent with the PRIME Act. This listing is currently active. Program number: 59.050. Last updated on 2026-01-21. Application snapshot: target deadline rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows; published funding information Funding amounts vary by year and recipient.; eligibility guidance Grant recipients shall be non-profit microenterprise development organizations or programs (or a collaborative thereof) that have a demonstrated record of delivering microenterprise services to disadvantaged entrepreneurs, an intermediary, a microenterprise development organization or program that is accountable to a local community, working in conjunction with a State or local government or Indian tribe, or an Indian tribe acting on its' own, if the tribe can certify that no private organization or program referred to in this paragraph exists within its' jurisdiction. Eligible applicant types include: Small Business Person. Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
Women's Business Ownership Assistance is sponsored by SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION. Women's Business Centers (WBCs) are a part a national network of entrepreneurship centers throughout the United States and its territories, which are designed to assist women in starting and growing small businesses. This listing is currently active. Program number: 59.043. Last updated on 2026-01-21. Application snapshot: target deadline rolling deadlines or periodic funding windows; published funding information Funding amounts vary by year and recipient.; eligibility guidance Applicants must be a private non-profit organization certified under § 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and have experience providing technical services to women, and other entrepreneurs. To the extent that they satisfy all eligibility criteria the same as all other applicant organizations, Faith based Organizations are entitled to compete for Federal financial assistance (grants and/or cooperative agreements) used to support government programs. Generally, such organizations are not required to alter their religious character to participate in a government program, nor to cease engaging in explicitly religious activities outside the program, nor effectively to relinquish their Federal statutory protections for religious hiring decisions. Eligible applicant types include: Nonprofit Organization, Small Business Person. Use the official notice and source links for final requirements, attachment checklists, allowable costs, and submission instructions before applying.
