Help Grow Small Businesses & Promote Local Job Creation
The City of York is partnering with international crowd-lending website, Kiva. This partnership brings crowd-funded microloans to small business owners and entrepreneurs in the City of York. Kiva works with communities to provide zero interest loans up to $10,000 for small businesses and entrepreneurs. Through this partnership, financially excluded entrepreneurs in the City of York have the opportunity to access capital on a greater scale, spurring economic development through small business growth and job creation. This partnership opportunity was introduced to The City of York by PNC and is being made possible through financial support from the York County Community Foundation and PNC.
For more information, please contact our Economic Development Specialist and Kiva Capital Access Manager, David Tavarez at dtavarez@yorkcity.org or at york@local.kiva.org
Kiva York Hub Entrepreneurs
Kiva is a non-profit that expands access to capital for entrepreneurs around the world. More than 2.5 million people have raised over $1 billion on Kiva. Could you be next?
Learn More and Apply!Kiva York Hub Trustees
Kiva York Trustees are organizations that are invested in the success of entrepreneurs and small businesses in the City of York. Our carefully selected trustees are often already providing different levels of service to small business owners and use their work to help the Kiva York Hub identify entrepreneurs they believe in and publicly endorse them as borrowers on the Kiva website. Trustees organizations may work in various sectors of community and economic development including the arts, banking, small business development and mentoring. Trustees are catalysts of empowerment to entrepreneurs in our community.
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