Central Bank of Kansas City
Kansas City
Choices Federal Credit Union
St. Louis
Great Rivers Community Capital
St. Louis
HFHI-SA NMTC I, LLC
St. Louis
MBS Urban Initiatives CDE, LLC
St Louis
Missouri Family Credit Union
Independence
St. Louis Development Corporation
St. Louis
Travois New Markets, LLC
Kansas City
USBCDE, LLC
St. Louis
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.
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.
Ganesh Natarajan is the Founder and Chairman of 5FWorld, a new platform for funding and developing start-ups, social enterprises and the skills eco-system in India. In the past two decades, he has built two of India’s high-growth software services companies – Aptech and Zensar – almost from scratch to global success.