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Greensburg, PA – The Progress Fund, a local community lender, announced today that it has received a capital grant from the Create Jobs for USA Fund, a collaboration between Starbucks and Opportunity Finance Network (OFN). […] Continue Reading

Greensburg, PA – During its most successful year yet, The Progress Fund loaned over $5 million to 25 area small businesses, and is positioned to surpass this record in 2012. Click here to read the […] Continue Reading

Click here to read the full article: “Small Business Financing Through Community Development Financial Institutions – CDFI’s as a Source of Small Business Financing in 2012” – Published on About.com (By: Rosemary Peavler)

Harrisburg, Dec. 21, 2011 – Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED) Secretary C. Alan Walker announced today the allocation of $29.2 million of funding from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s State Small Business […] Continue Reading

(From left to right: David Kahley, Co-founder, President & CEO; Karen Post, Co-founder, Treasurer & CFO; Amy Camp, Trail Town Program Manager; and Gary Delaney, Commercial Loan Officer) Minneapolis, MN 2011 — The staff of […] Continue Reading

The Progress Fund, a Greensburg-based nonprofit that lends money to the small-scale entrepreneurs traditional lenders normally would not help, has won a $2.75 million award from Wachovia Wells Fargo and the MacArthur Foundation. The prize […] Continue Reading