Tag: Providence Business Loan Fund
R.I. receives $6.8M from feds for Revolving Loan Funds
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island has been allocated $6.8 million from the federal government to capitalize and administer Revolving Loan Funds for businesses impacted by...
Providence Business Loan Fund hits $1M mark in COVID-19 financing
PROVIDENCE – The Providence Business Loan Fund recently surpassed $1 million in low-interest emergency loans for small businesses hurt by COVID-19.
As of July 24,...
Providence Business Loan Fund greenlights first COVID-19 emergency loans
PROVIDENCE - The Providence Business Loan Fund board of directors on Thursday unanimously approved up to $310,000 in low-interest emergency loans to four city...
Providence expands business loan fund to help companies hurt by COVID-19
PROVIDENCE – The city of Providence is temporarily changing the terms of its business loan fund to help more businesses come up with the...
Five Questions With Thomas Hoagland
5Q: Thomas Hoagland | Executive director, Providence Business Loan Fund
1. How many active loans does PBLF have, and what are they worth collectively?...
Yoleni’s offers taste of Greece
What does it take for a new restaurant to survive? Before anything else, hard work, says Alexandra Georgiou, who opened Yoleni’s in downtown Providence...
Providence mayoral candidates vie for pulse on small businesses
It may be hard to think of the many rundown and abandoned houses that have tarnished Providence’s neighborhoods in the context of small business...
Once-embattled city loan fund on firmer ground
Tom Hoagland is the first to admit the Providence Business Loan Fund he leads as director has a checkered history and limited hopes of...
Loan fund in search of borrowers
Providence Mayor Jorge O. Elorza took a victory lap of sorts recently, visiting three companies that have been beneficiaries of loans from the Providence...
Elorza emphasizes Providence business loan program
PROVIDENCE – Mayor Jorge O. Elorza recently toured local businesses helped by the Providence Business Loan Fund.
Elorza, running against two democratic challengers in the...