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Local 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 ...

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Big 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 ...

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“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 ...

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Coe’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 ...

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Small Business Solutions for Barbour County

Woodlands is excited to be taking part in a new group created to support existing and encourage new small businesses in Barbour County. While the group’s objectives will be ...

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Green Building Initiative: Conditioned Crawl Spaces

Since our inception in the mid-1990s Woodlands has been pushing the envelope and including green building practices on every project. Wrapped in the final package of a finished house, ...

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Norton’s Ultimate Small Business

Jeff Strahin, now-owner of Jeff’s Ultimate Grill, came to Woodlands in 2020 through the Mon Forest Business Initiative. Jeff, a veteran of the US Navy, had been living in ...

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