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Pictured: Eric Ness, District Director for the U.S. Small Business Administration presents Microloan funds to Pam Rich, LOF President

Pictured: Wyman Winston, Executive Director of WHEDA presenting at the Brown Bag Lunch in July 2014

Programs Offered By LOF Include:

Highlights:

Business Administration.

will have access to $750,000 of funds.

$124,100 in Technical Assistance (TA) grant funds. The funds will be used to develop the LOF staff, provide training for small businesses as well as aid in capitalization planning, TA program expansion across the state and support marketing and technology improvements to deliver TA programs.

Loan Fund programs with the African American Chamber of Commerce Wisconsin, American Indian Chamber of Commerce,

Chamber of Commerce.

employees to support its programs.

community development organizations in the Milwaukee area.

Lincoln Opportunity Fund (LOF) is a not-for-profit Certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), wholly owned by Wisconsin Business Development Finance Corp. LOF provides loans as well as services to small businesses throughout Wisconsin with a focus on low income communities. LOF’s objective, consistent with CDFI, is to “increase economic opportunity and promote community development investments for underserved populations and in distressed communities.”

Lincoln Opportunity Fund