Lending
Microenterprise Loans Support Local Businesses
Woodlands is pleased to have the support of USDA-Rural Development (USDA RD) in providing lending and technical assistance to small businesses in our region. Through USDA RD we ...
Read MoreHow To Make a Big Impact with Small Lending
Carla and Jason Kaposy felt compelled to make an investment that could be pivotal in spurring economic development in their hometown of Petersburg, a Mon Forest Town in Grant ...
Read MoreLocal Bank Support Critical to CDFI Success
As a CDFI focused on small business development, Lenders is a complement to local banks’ loan programs, not a competitor. Hoy Ferguson, President of Davis Trust Company in Elkins ...
Read MoreTipTop Of The Iceberg: Leveraging Funding into Large Local Investment
TipTop no longer needs us. The business now has the resources and collateral to qualify for conventional financing. But back in 2012, when Cade and Carrie Archuleta were purchasing ...
Read MoreBig Timber Shows the Big Impact of Small Businesses
Matt and Ashley Kwasniewski were shopping around for startup capital for their craft brewery idea in 2012, just as we opened the doors of Lenders. None of the commercial ...
Read More2022 Lenders Annual Report & Audit
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Read More“I’m Very Particular About My Fish”
John Bell, owner and operator of Johnny B’s Campground in southern Randolph County, takes his fishing ponds very seriously. The central feature of a multi-faceted property, his three fishing ...
Read MoreCoe’s Country Store: A Study in Rural Collaboration
On a sparkling day at the tail end of winter Woodlands Development & Lending joined Nicole Coe and a host of her family and supporters to cut the ribbon ...
Read MoreInvest Appalachia Announces $19M in New Funding
Invest Appalachia (IA) has announced $19M of new investment in a fund to provide capital to community economic development projects. Focused on increasing investment in Appalachia overall, 90% of ...
Read MoreNon-traditional Lenders Playing Key Role in Success of Tygart Hotel Rehab
A key partner in the Tygart Hotel project, Partner Community Capital, recently sent a team from their Charles Town, WV to take stock of the progress being made in ...
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