Lincoln Opportunity Fund (LOF), a not-for-profit community development organization, received $750,000 in microloan funds and a $124,100 technical assistance grant from the U.S. Small Business Administration and Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority. The funds will help LOF expand its loan and technical assistance programs to support small businesses, especially in low-income communities, through partnerships with various chambers of commerce and by developing its staff and services.

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Pictured: Eric Ness, District Director for the
U.S. Small Business Administration presents
Microloan funds to Pam Rich, LOF President
Pictured: Wyman Winston, Executive Director
of WHEDA presenting at the Brown Bag Lunch
in July 2014
Programs Offered By LOF Include:
Highlights:
Business Administration.
will have access to $750,000 of funds.
$124,100 in Technical Assistance (TA) grant funds. The funds
will be used to develop the LOF staff, provide training for
small businesses as well as aid in capitalization planning, TA
program expansion across the state and support marketing and
technology improvements to deliver TA programs.
Loan Fund programs with the African American Chamber of
Commerce Wisconsin, American Indian Chamber of Commerce,
Chamber of Commerce.
employees to support its programs.
community development organizations in the Milwaukee area.
Lincoln Opportunity Fund (LOF) is a not-for-profit Certified Community Development Financial Institution
(CDFI), wholly owned by Wisconsin Business Development Finance Corp. LOF provides loans as well as
services to small businesses throughout Wisconsin with a focus on low income communities. LOF’s objective,
consistent with CDFI, is to “increase economic opportunity and promote community development investments
for underserved populations and in distressed communities.”
Lincoln Opportunity Fund