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Provides programs to build or improve housing and essential community facilities in rural areas.

Programs available

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally provides grants for health and safety repairs for those over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds also may be used to buy/improve land and to provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas. Priority to health care, education and public safety projects.

Services

Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Business Financing

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Provides programs to build or improve housing and essential community facilities in rural areas.

Programs available

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally provides grants for health and safety repairs for those over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds also may be used to buy/improve land and to provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas. Priority to health care, education and public safety projects.

Services

Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Business Financing

Provides programs to build or improve housing and essential community facilities in rural areas.

Programs available

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally provides grants for health and safety repairs for those over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds also may be used to buy/improve land and to provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas. Priority to health care, education and public safety projects.

Services

Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Business Financing

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Provides programs to build or improve housing and essential community facilities in rural areas.

Programs available

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally provides grants for health and safety repairs for those over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds also may be used to buy/improve land and to provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas. Priority to health care, education and public safety projects.

Services

Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Business Financing
Business coaching, technical assistance, and loans for Nebraska-based rural small businesses.

Services

Business Assistance Services
Business Financing
Business development including business plans for startups or expansion for existing businesses; budgeting; financial projections for loan applications; marketing plans; and industry training (restaurant, commercial and residential cleaning, childcare, and construction, and others).

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Loan Department: Provides direct below market loans to eligible Midwest nonprofit and faith based organizations.
The Facade Loan Program provides up to $40,000 loans for 10 years with five years deferred principal and interest and payments with 5% interest starting in year six.

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Committed to providing minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veteran-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs across the state with equitable access to opportunities and resources.

Services

Minority Business Development
Minority Business Financing
Loan provider in rural areas.

Business and Industry Loan Guarantees are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate.

Community Facilities Direct and Guaranteed Loans and Grants are available for community service facilities in rural areas such as libraries, clinics, fire and rescue buildings and equipment, etc.

Cooperative Services helps rural residents form new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improve operations of existing cooperatives in rural areas.

Direct and Guaranteed Home Ownership provides loans to purchase or construct single family homes in rural areas for very low/low/moderate income households.

Direct Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants provide housing and related facilities in rural areas for domestic farm laborers.

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants provide for technology equipment and facilities for linking rural schools within regions, linking schools to other educational institutions, utilizing rural libraries as distance learning centers, linking rural hospitals and medical clinics to major medical centers, interactive video, and distance rural health training.

Energy Efficiency Improvements and Renewable Energy Systems provide grant assistance in development of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement projects. Renewable systems include wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. Energy efficiency improvements include energy improvements to business facility including insulation, windows, doors, HVAC, refrigeration, lighting, pumping/air/motor systems, etc.

Housing Preservation Grants offers funding to selected recipient organization to develop program to help repair individual housing, rental properties or coops in rural areas owned and/or occupied by very low and low-income households.

Intermediary Re-Lending Program provides loans to ultimate recipients for community development projects, establishment and expansion of businesses, and creating and/or saving jobs in rural areas.

Rural Cooperative Development Grants establish and operate cooperative development centers in rural areas primarily to improve economic conditions of rural areas via development of new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improving existing co-ops' operations.

Rural Business Development Grants are competitive grants designed to support targeted technical assistance, training, and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas that have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in gross revenues.

Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants provide for a wide range of rural economic development projects in rural areas such as business expansion and start-up, community development, etc.

Rural Home Repair Loans and Grants assist homeowners, occupying dwellings in rural areas, to complete necessary repairs to their homes.

Rural Housing Site Loans provide loans in rural areas to purchase land and develop sites for very low/low/moderate-income housing.

Solid Waste Management Grants are used to reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

Technical Assistance and Training Grants are used to identify and evaluate solutions to water and wastewater problems of associations in rural areas relating to water source, storage, treatment and distribution; and waste collection, treatment and disposal.

Value-Added Producer Grants help eligible producers of agricultural commodities in rural areas to develop business plans for viable marketing opportunities and develop strategies to create marketing opportunities in emerging markets.

Water and Waste Dispos

Services

Business Financing
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Committed to providing minorities, women, persons with disabilities and veteran-owned small businesses and entrepreneurs across the state with equitable access to opportunities and resources.

Services

Minority Business Development
Minority Business Financing
Helps individuals develop small start-up businesses that can provide full-time or supplementary income to households. Financing for small business start-up can be available.
The Farm Service Agency provides youth loans for income producing projects that provide practical business experience.
Loan provider in rural areas.

Business and Industry Loan Guarantees are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate.

Community Facilities Direct and Guaranteed Loans and Grants are available for community service facilities in rural areas such as libraries, clinics, fire and rescue buildings and equipment, etc.

Cooperative Services helps rural residents form new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improve operations of existing cooperatives in rural areas.

Direct and Guaranteed Home Ownership provides loans to purchase or construct single family homes in rural areas for very low/low/moderate income households.

Direct Farm Labor Housing Loans and Grants provide housing and related facilities in rural areas for domestic farm laborers.

Distance Learning and Telemedicine Loans and Grants provide for technology equipment and facilities for linking rural schools within regions, linking schools to other educational institutions, utilizing rural libraries as distance learning centers, linking rural hospitals and medical clinics to major medical centers, interactive video, and distance rural health training.

Energy Efficiency Improvements and Renewable Energy Systems provide grant assistance in development of renewable energy and energy efficiency improvement projects. Renewable systems include wind, solar, biomass, and geothermal. Energy efficiency improvements include energy improvements to business facility including insulation, windows, doors, HVAC, refrigeration, lighting, pumping/air/motor systems, etc.

Housing Preservation Grants offers funding to selected recipient organization to develop program to help repair individual housing, rental properties or coops in rural areas owned and/or occupied by very low and low-income households.

Intermediary Re-Lending Program provides loans to ultimate recipients for community development projects, establishment and expansion of businesses, and creating and/or saving jobs in rural areas.

Rural Cooperative Development Grants establish and operate cooperative development centers in rural areas primarily to improve economic conditions of rural areas via development of new cooperatives and multiple owner businesses and improving existing co-ops' operations.

Rural Business Development Grants are competitive grants designed to support targeted technical assistance, training, and other activities leading to the development or expansion of small and emerging private businesses in rural areas that have fewer than 50 employees and less than $1 million in gross revenues.

Rural Economic Development Loans and Grants provide for a wide range of rural economic development projects in rural areas such as business expansion and start-up, community development, etc.

Rural Home Repair Loans and Grants assist homeowners, occupying dwellings in rural areas, to complete necessary repairs to their homes.

Rural Housing Site Loans provide loans in rural areas to purchase land and develop sites for very low/low/moderate-income housing.

Solid Waste Management Grants are used to reduce or eliminate pollution of water resources in rural areas and improve planning and management of solid waste sites in rural areas.

Technical Assistance and Training Grants are used to identify and evaluate solutions to water and wastewater problems of associations in rural areas relating to water source, storage, treatment and distribution; and waste collection, treatment and disposal.

Value-Added Producer Grants help eligible producers of agricultural commodities in rural areas to develop business plans for viable marketing opportunities and develop strategies to create marketing opportunities in emerging markets.

Water and Waste Dispos

Services

Business Financing
Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.

Loan capital to new or growing small businesses.
The Farm Service Agency provide youth loans for income producing projects that provide practical business experience.
Helps encourage expansion and growth in the core of Cedar Rapids by providing competitive loans to local businesses currently residing in, or who are willing to relocate to, the flood impacted area. This includes parts of the Downtown District, NewBo, Czech Village, and Kingston Village areas. Businesses who received disaster recover funds following the 2008 floods and residing in Cedar Rapids may also quality for a Revolving Loan Fund.

Provides programs to build or improve housing and essential community facilities in rural areas.

Programs available

- Single-Family Housing Programs: Direct loans or loan guarantees for low- and moderate-income rural families for mortgages and home repairs. Additionally provides grants for health and safety repairs for those over 62.

- Multi-Family Housing Programs: Loans for affordable rental housing for very-low- to moderate-income residents, the elderly, and people with disabilities. Funds also may be used to buy/improve land and to provide necessary facilities such as water and waste disposal systems. Rent assistance for rural residents.

- Community Facilities Programs: Loans, grants and loan guarantees for essential community facilities in rural areas. Priority to health care, education and public safety projects.

Services

Home Purchase/Mortgage Refinance Loans
Low Cost for Sale Homes/Housing Units
Home Rehabilitation Programs
Business Financing

Offers business and Industry Loan Guarantees that are available for business and industrial development in rural areas to create and maintain employment, expand and to improve economic climate. Eligible borrowers include Public bodies, Community-based non-profit corporations, Federally-recognized Tribes

Funds can be used to purchase, construct, and/or improve essential community facilities, purchase equipment and pay related project expenses.