Advance Bank
Baltimore
Baltimore Community Lending, Inc.
Baltimore
CDF Development, LLC
Baltimore
Charter Facilities Funding, LLC
Clarksville
Community Development Ventures, Inc.
Baltimore
Development Credit Fund, Inc. (DCF)
Baltimore
ESIC New Markets Partners, LP
Columbia
Faith Fund, Inc.
Baltimore
First Combined Community Federal Credit Union
UPPER MARLBORO
Harbor Bankshares Corporation
Baltimore
Maryland Capital Enterprises, Inc.
Salisbury
McAuley Institute
Silver Spring
Mid-City Community CDE, LLC
Bethesda
Native American Capital, LP (NAC)
Silver Spring
Urban Research Park CDE, LLC
Hunt Valley
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.