Dakotas America, LLC
Sioux Falls
First Nations Oweesta Corporation
Rapid City
Four Bands Community Fund, Inc.
Eagle Butte
Grow South Dakota
Sisseton
InterTribal Bison Cooperative
Rapid City
Lakota Fund, The
Kyle
Mazaska Owecaso Otipi Financial, Inc
Pine Ridge
Oglala Sioux Tribe
Pine Ridge
Oti Kaga, Inc.
Eagle Butte
Sisseton Wahpeton Sioux Tribe
Agency Village
South Dakota Rural Enterprise, Inc.
Sioux Falls SD
South Eastern Development Foundation
Sioux Falls
Teton Coalition, Inc.
Rapid City
The Harvest Initiative, Inc
Fort Thompson
The Sicangu Fund
Mission
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.
The Program for Investment in Micro-Entrepreneurs Technical Assistance Program is designed to decrease the number of disadvantaged micro-entrepreneurs by helping them enhance their management capabilities, by way of providing them with technical assistance and training in the areas concerning activities that are associated with starting, expanding and growing their businesses.
Youths in the Middle East deal with the world’s social problems such as high youth unemployment rates. As a solution, some are creating new businesses with a social purpose, such as tackling environmental issues, illiteracy or health, while also spurring job creation.