ENTREPRENEURS
ENTREPRENEURS
Building businesses builds communities
New Growth and partners work together as the START HERE Business Acceleration Network to help rural entrepreneurs get going and growing. Making sure rural businesses have the right resources at the right time is our focus. Rural development starts here, with entrepreneurs
Building businesses builds communities
New Growth and partners work together as the START HERE Business Acceleration Network to help rural entrepreneurs get going and growing. Making sure rural businesses have the right resources at the right time is our focus. Rural development starts here, with entrepreneurs.
Business Assistance
START HERE Business Acceleration Network
Find the help your rural business needs. We are pulling resources together for you. Our communities rely on the small businesses our neighbors own, the jobs they offer, and the investments they make in being here long-term.
Financing
START HERE Revolving Loan Fund
The START HERE Revolving Loan Fund provides the microenterprise support and financing that rural startups and small businesses need. This nonprofit community fund is designed to build credit and financial capability so entrepreneurs can advance to traditional bank lending.
Women’s Business Center
The New Growth Women’s Business Center advances rural entrepreneurs in all stages of business development and growth. We focus on the power and potential of rural women to employ themselves, provide jobs for others, and build their local economies and communities.
Business Assistance
START HERE Business Acceleration Network
Find the help your rural business needs. We are pulling resources together for you. Our communities rely on the small businesses our neighbors own, the jobs they offer, and the investments they make in being here long-term.
Financing
The START HERE Revolving Loan Fund provides the microenterprise support and financing that rural startups and small businesses need. This nonprofit community fund is designed to build credit and financial capability so entrepreneurs can advance to traditional bank lending.
Women’s Business Center
The New Growth Women’s Business Center advances rural entrepreneurs in all stages of business development and growth. We focus on the power and potential of rural women to employ themselves, provide jobs for others, and build their local economies and communities.
ENTREPRENEUR NEWS
Credit score: From zero to 700
St. Clair County, Missouri, resident Matt Anderson moved his credit score from zero to 700 in less than six months with the help of nonprofit New Growth’s free credit building program.
New Growth to co-lead five-state Foods Center
Rural Missouri community development corporation New Growth will co-lead the new Heartland Regional Foods Business Center with the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) through a $25 million cooperative agreement award from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Women’s Business Advocacy Challenge
Missouri’s rural Women’s Business Centers invite rural women entrepreneurs to raise their voices and be heard. The 2023 Women’s Business Advocacy Challenge is an easy way to give it a try. Join us!