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Catholic Charities – Microbusiness Training and Development Program

Of the many programs offered by the Catholic Charities, Inc of Omaha, this program is designed to assist persons who want to start their own small business. The Microbusiness Training and Development Project offers training in business skills, micro-loans and ongoing technical assistance. Classes are available in Spanish, and referrals are made for English training. [...]

Center for Rural Affairs – Rural Enterprise Assistance Project

Mission: REAP is a business development program with the Center of Rural Affairs. Its mission is to strengthen rural communities through small, self-employed business development. Services: It provides individuals with business management training, technical assistance, lending capital, loan packaging, and networking opportunities for starting and growing a business. Roundtables and/or associations of micro-entrepreneurs are formed [...]

Central Community College – Small Business Incubator/Institute

The Incubator is one of the services provided by the Small Business Institute, located on the campus of Central Community College, Hastings. The main purpose of the Incubator is to provide space for new small business start-ups and/or for small business owners that wish to grow and expand.  In addition, occupancy in the Incubator should [...]

Central Nebraska Community Services (CNCS)

The Community Economic Development Department, part of the Central Nebraska Community Services, assists families, businesses, and neighborhoods with economic development. Economic development activities the department focuses on is providing housing and business opportunities. CED Department provides loans and technical assistance to small businesses that do not have access to a conventional lender. Loans and technical [...]

Community Action Partnership of Mid-Nebraska (Mid-Nebraska Community Services)

To provide alternative employment opportunities, increase employment capacity, encourage economic development, and offer microbusiness funding opportunities. The lending program encourages the start-up of small, emerging businesses and the expansion of established businesses. A caring, non-profit organization that provides resources to help people and communities in 27 counties, grow within themselves for a better future.

Community Development Resources

CDR is a 501 non-profit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), as designated by the U.S. Department of Treasury’s CDFI Fund. What is a CDFI? Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) are mission-driven private financial institutions specifically dedicated to, and whose core purpose is, providing financial products and services to people and communities underserved by traditional financial [...]

Fillmore County Development Corporation

Fillmore County Development Corporation is a non-profit corporation that fosters economic development within the county and local communities. In addition to recruiting new industries to locate in Fillmore County, the Corporation also works with retention and expansion of existing businesses and industries. The Fillmore County Development Corporation is also the county’s lead organization on issues [...]

GROW Nebraska

GROW Nebraska helps Nebraska entrepreneurs become sustainable businesses. Through training and technical assistance, GROW increases the survival rate of start-up businesses. GROW facilitates marketing and networking opportunities that help micro businesses in Nebraska increase their triple bottom line, and they actively work with members to create brand awareness. GROW provides these services to members at an [...]

Halo Institute

The Halo Institute, a venture of the Creighton University College of Business provides entrepreneurs with the resources, strategies and business counsel necessary to dramatically increase their early chances of success. Our goal is to launch up to 20 viable, high impact businesses a year and in the process, further establish Omaha as a national center [...]

Ho-Chunk Community Development Corporation

HCCDC identifies it’s target service market as Native Americans in Thurston County, Nebraska.  HCCDC was formed by and partners with the Winnebago Tribe and its entities, and therefore its core focus is the Winnebago Indian Reservation.  However, due to its present location in Walthill on the Omaha Reservation (located adjacent to the Winnebago Reservation – [...]

Hormel Family Foundation

The Hormel Family Foundation was founded in 1999 by the late Ben F. Hormel, himself a McCook entrepreneur, to support McCook Community College. Among his many business ventures, Ben F. Hormel operated the Chevrolet dealership in McCook. When Ben F. Hormel passed away in 2002, he passed on the torch to his children and grand-children, [...]

Ideation Ventures

Ideation Ventures provides corporate advisory and investment management services, drawing on management’s experience and networks in venture capital and private equity. The firm consists of two entities. Ideation Partners, LLC assists early and growth stage companies with corporate advisory services. Ideation Capital Management, LLC works with investors (individuals and institutions) in building and managing portfolios [...]

Invest Nebraska Corporation

Through the financial support of the public and private sectors, Invest Nebraska exists to improve access between emerging Nebraska-based businesses and the resources they need to more effectively and efficiently achieve their goals.

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food

Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food (KYF2) is a USDA initiative to promote sustainable local and regional food systems that will support farmers and ranchers, strengthen rural communities, promote healthy eating, and protect our natural resources. President Obama has called for a reinvigoration of our local food systems, and KYF2 represents the efforts of Secretary [...]

Leap Ventures

Leap Ventures is a program for startups that provides seed funding. Our seed funding comprises of up to $20,000 in capital and a healthy amount of Relational Funding. They focus on early stage technology companies. They avoid service businesses, consulting companies and lifestyle businesses. Leap plans to sponsor and invest in 10 to 12 concepts [...]

Lincoln Action Program

Entrepreneur Development initiatives offer comprehensive business training that helps people with minimal business experience gain the skills and knowledge they need to plan, start, operate, and expand a viable business. Curriculum presents a step-by-step process to start a small business, covering the fundamentals of business planning, marketing, and management. Assistance also includes on-going business counseling, [...]

Midwest Child Care Association (MCCA)

Midwest Child Care Association (MCCA), has provided support, training and child care resource and referral services to child care business owners and working parents, since 1980. The service area is the state of Nebraska and the western part of Iowa. A board of Directors heads MCCA with oversight of a $4.6 million annual budget. MCCA [...]

Minden Economic Development

The Minden Economic Development Program, formed in 2007, serves as the lead economic development organization for Minden, Nebraska in Kearney County. The organization’s overall goals are to foster and encourage responsible, sustainable economic development activities that result in job creation, job retention, increases to the tax base and improved quality of life for the citizens [...]

Nebraska Advantage

The Nebraska Advantage package was designed to create a business climate that makes Nebraska the preferred location for starting and growing your business. The Nebraska Advantage rewards businesses that invest in the state and hire Nebraskans. In this progressive, pro-business tax climate, corporate income and sales taxes are reduced or virtually eliminated. This year, the [...]

Nebraska Angels

Nebraska Angels is a newly formed independent consortium of individual angel investors. Our mission is to provide opportunities for our members to obtain outstanding financial returns by investing in promising early-stage companies primed for expansion. Our primary focus is companies with a Nebraska presence or other ties to the state, although exceptions may be made [...]

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