Be a Small Business Champion
Be a Small Business Champion
By partnering with LiftFund, you can close the financial gap small businesses face with LiftFund capital and support.
You play a vital role in the small business community. Take your support to another level by partnering with LiftFund through our funding support programs and referral partnership opportunities.
In doing so, you’re helping to fill small businesses’ greatest need — access to financial support. When they have capital, they can grow — and when they grow, they spur economic activity and create prosperity in your community.
We take pride in providing business owners a chance to grow their business and create wealth with our business loans and support programs. Support options:
- Refer business owners to LiftFund
- Assist business owners in preparing for loans
- Start and grow a small business program with LiftFund
- Collaborate as a business resource
Partnerships create a stronger support system.
Through our partnerships, entrepreneurs access credit, build their financial wellness, and create a pathway to financial and business success.
Through LevelFi, we’ve made it easier for small
business champions to refer to LiftFund and assess
their client’s readiness for a LiftFund loan.
LevelFi is a lighter version of LiftFund’s underwriting
risk model. The tool utilizes over 10,000 loans made
by LiftFund to determine if a customer is a good
referral to LiftFund. The goal of LevelFi is to create
a stronger small business referral ecosystem to
capital.
Banking Partner
Banking PartnerLiftFund can be a resource for your clients who aren’t bank ready yet.
LiftFund serves as a solution for you and your clients. Our bank partners help clients who may have credit issues and not ready for a full bank relationship. Together we can help your clients reach their full potential and graduate to your bank. LiftFund also offers products that align with banks like the SBA 504 program. With our partnership, an opportunity for Community Reinvestment Act Credit is also a potential.
Community Partner
LiftFund can’t support hard-working, diverse entrepreneurs without community partners.
LiftFund partners with community organizations of all walks to compliment their work and bring micro-lending and financial and business education to community. We’ve partnered with community organizations to remove access to capital barriers and building credit. We’ve created partnerships that leverage local organizations skills with our lending to build financial resiliency as a solution for our partners’ clients their families and their neighborhoods.
Education Partner
LiftFund builds small business networks through education partnership.
LiftFund works closely with small business education partners across our footprint. LiftFund team members present on various topics including: preparing for capital and credit, the 5 C’s of Credit, business planning and more. Through education partnerships, LiftFund can provide training on products and criteria so partners can refer underbanked entrepreneurs successfully to LiftFund.
Government Partner
We partner with local, regional, and state governments to grow small business.
We are a Community Financial Development Institute recognized by the U.S. Treasury. LiftFund can help government expand their support for small business with our lending and education resources. Through government partnerships we are able to leverage our expertise, which reduces governmental liability. Our programming with government agencies includes loan fund programs, interest reduction programs, business education and financial education programming, and more.
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Partner Directory
View our partner directory to learn more about organizations partnering with LiftFund to support small businesses in their communities.
