We help move small businesses forward through cultivation of asset and wealth building strategies

Whether a business is just emerging or has been operating for years – The Association of Financial Development Corporations (TAFDC) member agencies help people move forward; help financial institutions broaden and diversify their client base; and help translate community investments into financial independence.

Adept at helping small businesses overcome obstacles, TAFDC member agencies work to assess the practicality of their borrower’s objectives, minimize risk and loss, determine their borrower’s ability to repay a loan, and monitor loan performance.

Offering financing, education and technical assistance, as well as encouraging the cultivation of asset and wealth building strategies, TAFDC member agencies also develop the connections necessary to create opportunity where none may have been thought to exist.

TAFDC member agency clients are often those who have encountered a number of obstacles to qualifying for traditional credit from main street financial institutions. More than providing a loan guarantee, it is our objective to help eliminate barriers related to, credit history, cash flow, lack of awareness, language barriers or cultural differences, and even fear.  We recognize, being afraid to commit, to learn, or to even just try can only be conquered by taking one deliberate and informed step at a time.  With TAFDC member agencies that journey is not made alone.