{"id":174915,"date":"2024-04-01T18:14:15","date_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174915"},"modified":"2024-04-01T18:14:15","modified_gmt":"2024-04-02T01:14:15","slug":"california-launches-new-program-to-increase-capital-access-for-californias-underinvested-small-businesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=174915","title":{"rendered":"California Launches New Program to Increase Capital Access for California\u2019s Underinvested Small Businesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Andreas, CA&#8230;Increasing capital access for California\u2019s underinvested small businesses is what the\u00a0Technical Assistance for Capital Readiness Program is all about. It is backed by $25.3 million in funding from the U.S. Treasury\u2019s\u00a0State Small Business Credit Initiative\u00a0(SSBCI). SSBCI is designed to spur investment to businesses with 1-9 employees, small manufacturing companies, and businesses operated by owners from underserved communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calosba.ca.gov\/funding-grants-incentives\/state-small-business-credit-initiative\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-174916\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo.png 2200w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-1536x1536.png 1536w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-2048x2048.png 2048w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-570x570.png 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-701x701.png 701w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-1067x1067.png 1067w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo-30x30.png 30w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">How the Program Helps Business-Owners:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\n<li>Guides them to navigate the loan process, prepare their loan applications, and determine what loan products, if any, will be the best fit.<\/li>\n<li>Builds legal, accounting, and financial management skills<\/li>\n<li>Increases awareness of state-backed capital support programs for small businesses applying for capital<\/li>\n<li>Designed to spur the approval of new business loans to the state\u2019s smallest and most vulnerable business-owners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For more information and to apply visit:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/calosba.ca.gov\/funding-grants-incentives\/state-small-business-credit-initiative\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/calosba.ca.gov\/funding-grants-incentives\/state-small-business-credit-initiative\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1712106476998000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0vl1B1MStk3HabghKThSNy\">https:\/\/calosba.ca.gov\/funding-grants-incentives\/state-small-business-credit-initiative\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Andreas, CA&#8230;Increasing capital access for California\u2019s underinvested small businesses is what the\u00a0Technical Assistance for Capital Readiness Program is all about. It is backed by $25.3 million in funding from the U.S. Treasury\u2019s\u00a0State Small Business Credit Initiative\u00a0(SSBCI). SSBCI is designed to spur investment to businesses with 1-9 employees, small manufacturing companies, and businesses operated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":174916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/osba-logo.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174917,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174915\/revisions\/174917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/174916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}