The district office works with 314 participating lenders to provide access to capital to the small business community.
Sheldon's plan will make Rhode Island businesses more competitive, provide continued access to capital, and eliminate the tax incentives encouraging companies to move jobs overseas.
These loans are quite small relative to normal Western financial arrangements, but provide access to capital that was never possible due to economic, cultural, or historical reasons.
One solution to this problem - providing access to capital for entrepreneurs in the developing world - has been addressed through the microcredit revolution.
The entities then issue asset-backed securities to investors and provide businesses with access to new capital, often at a lower cost than is available elsewhere.
This bill will provide access to capital for small business owners and offer incentives to help small businesses grow, hire and fuel the economy.
The utilities' hope has been that partnerships with private companies could generate savings and provide access to capital to help cover such staggering bills.
They are really providing access to capital through an organization than knows how to work with city programs.
Policymakers theorized that housing mobility would provide residents with access to "social capital", including ties to informal job networks.
Indeed, he sees expansion into corporate finance as a crucial step to provide minorities access to badly needed capital.