ACCION USA
Boston
AI Wainwright LLC
Boston
BCLF Ventures II, LLC
Boston
Institute for Community Economics
Springfield
Jobs for Fall River, Inc.
Fall River
Local Enterprise Assistance Fund
Brookline
MHIC, LLC
Boston
NOAH Community Development Fund, Inc.
East Boston
UECDF Corporation
Roxbury
WCHR Securities, Inc.
Worcester
YouthBuild Loan Fund
Somerville
In keeping with this mission, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has recently established the Common Bean Productivity Research for Global Food Security Competitive Grants Program in an attempt to develop approaches and methods that can efficiently address the various challenges facing common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) production among small holder producers in food insecure countries.
The Small Business Administration has constituted the Secondary Market Lending Authority program, one which aims to provide liquidity for the secondary market, thereby ultimately encouraging new lending opportunities from banks of Small Business Administration guaranteed loans.
Here are the star companies that have succeeded in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs. The companies were gathered by Civic 50, a national initiative to survey and rank S&P 500 corporations on how they engage with the communities they serve and utilize best practices in their corporate cultures.