Scale Up
Your Business
USDUCC is honored to participate in this program as a resource partner, working to ensure underserved small businesses, including businesses run by women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans, as well as businesses in low-to-moderate-wealth, rural, or disaster-impacted communities, are ready to access this funding. This work will include:
Raising awareness of funding opportunities.
Providing one-on-one coaching to help business owners navigate the loan process.
Providing one-on-one coaching and training on financial, legal, and accounting topics.
Preparing loan applications.
Determining what financing products are the best fit.
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Funding for this $25.3 million Program comes from the U.S. Treasury's State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI), which was created by the U.S. Congress in 2010 and reauthorized through the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021.
This project is being supported, in whole or in part, by a subaward made under federal award number SSBCI-21031-0018 awarded to the California Office of the Small Business Advocate (CalOSBA) by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.