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MEDA and Business Community Co-Host “Latino Small-Business Mixer”

A fun yet impactful time was on the menu for the 80 attendees of a May 16 “Latino Small-Business Mixer” held at Don Ramon’s Mexican Restaurante in SoMa. This mixer was part of San Francisco Small Business Week, held each May, with the mixer’s co-hosts MEDA, Excelsior Action Group, La Cocina, Hispanic Chambers of Commerce…

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Qosqo Maky

Qosqo Maky’s Mission to Thrive Aided by Adelante Fund Loan

Juana and Raul Ttito immigrated to the U.S. eight years ago, the doting parents looking to follow their grown daughter … and with the dream of a better life for themselves and their two other children. The industrious couple, who were always artisans, had a successful business for 15 years in the Andean city of…

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MEDA’s New Adelante Fund Starts Offering Small-Business Loans to Low-Income Community

The need MEDA’s new community loan fund — Adelante Fund — is now poised to provide loans to small-business owners who cannot access affordable bank loans. Adelante Fund loans can be used for any business purpose from lease improvements and supplies/inventory to equipment and working capital. Knowing that many small businesses struggle to access the lending capital that…

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