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What Would Your Neighborhood Be Without Its Small Businesses?
Behind every corner bakery, barbershop, and family-run diner is someone who decided to bet on themselves.
ECDI helps entrepreneurs across the region turn that bet into a business — with the funding and mentoring to back it up. Your gift helps make the next one possible.
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What Your Gift Supports
Your gift creates direct, flexible support for entrepreneurs when they need it most.
​Your gift may help provide:
✔ One-on-one business advising and mentoring
✔ Access to capital through ECDI's lending programs
✔ Training and workshops through our Women's Business Centers
✔ Support for veteran-owned businesses and government contractors
✔ Guidance for entrepreneurs launching new food businesses
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Real Impact. Real Businesses.
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Nicky Reardon
Fruits & Roots Coffee Roasters
We went from a very small home based operation to a full commercial set up. We were able to secure a loan to scale our equipment and maximize our production. We can now fully service multiple cafes, wholesale clients across the US, our own mobile cart, and our customers here at home. It's given us the ability to grow, and also the skills to fully work on our business not just in it. We've taken co-horts to classes investing in our company and ourselves. The help from ECDI has been pivotal for us.