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Low Interest Loans

        
County Quick Facts          
   

Community Economic Development Loan Program  (CED)

    
Business Climate     to for-profit start-up and fledgling businesses with 100 or fewer full-time employees involved in business-to-public service, mercantile, commercial or point of sale retail sectors  
       
Business Incentives  

Enterprise Zone Revolving Loan Fund

      
      financing up to $250,000 for companies located within an existing Enterprise Zone  
Sites/Facilities  

Export Financing Program  (EFP)

      
     

to businesses with facilities located in Pennsylvania involved in export activities for at least 12 months and with 250 or fewer employees

  
Education      
   

First Industries Fund

      
Infrastructure     to assist non-profit and for-profit enterprises involved in agriculture and tourism  
   

Machinery and Equipment Loan Fund  (MELF)

      
Life Style     for manufacturing, industrial, agricultural processing, direct mining, agricultural production operations  
   

Alliance Revolving Loan Fund

      
Government Officials     gap financing to eligible for-profit businesses located in Crawford County  
   

Pennsylvania Minority Business Development Authority  (PMBDA)

    
Conference Rooms     for retail, service, manufacturing, industrial, advanced technology businesses and franchise restaurants owned and operated by ethnic minorities who are current residents of Pennsylvania  
       
   

Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) - Job Creation and Retention
      to manufacturing, industrial, agri-business, computer or clerical operations centers, national or regional headquarters, and R&D facilities for creation or retention of employment  
       
   

Pennsylvania Industrial Development Authority (PIDA) - Multi-Occupancy

 
      for manufacturing, warehouse and distribution, and any other PIDA eligible activities such as R&D  
   

Pollution Prevention Assistance Account  (PPAA)

    
      to for-profit enterprises, excluding mercantile and service-related enterprises, with no more than 100 total employees for acquisition or installation of pollution prevention or energy efficient equipment or processes  
       
   

RDA Revolving Loan Fund

    
      for new and expanding private for-profit businesses located or locating in the city of Meadville  
   

Small Business First  (SBF)

    
      for eligible businesses unable to fully finance projects with equity, bank financing or other private or public sources  
       
   

USDA Intermediary Re-lending Program  (USDA-IRP)

    
      to private for-profit firms unable to finance their project with their own resources entirely or through commercial credit or other federal, state or local resources at reasonable rates and terms  
       
   

Underground Storage Tank Upgrade Loan Program  (USTULP)

    
      to owners of registered underground storage tanks to upgrade or remove their UST systems to meet federal EPA requirements  
       
   

Infrastructure Development Program  (IDP)

    
      for infrastructure construction and rehabilitation necessary to complement capital investment by private companies and private developers  
       
   

Business In Our Sites Project Loans

    
      to municipalities, authorities, development agencies and private developers for acquisition and development of key sites for future use by businesses  
       
                 
   

Bond Financing

          
   

Grants

          
   

Job Creation and Training

        
   

Other

          
                 
                 
                 
                 

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Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County

764 Bessemer Street, Suite 101

Meadville   PA  16335

814-333-2299

12/21/2007