Paul Bunyard

At Impact Development Fund, we have a passion for helping people. In Colorado, there are too many under-served communities. We’ve made it our mission to assist these communities by providing loans to non-profits, families, and developers.

Denver Economic Development and Opportunity (DEDO) is creating an economy that works for everyone. We work to ensure the success of Denver’s economy is shared by our residents, businesses, and neighborhoods – because everyone deserves the opportunity to build a future. We do this through four divisions: Workforce Services, Neighborhood Equity & Stabilization (NEST), Division of Small Business Opportunity (DSBO), and Business Development.

The Arvada Economic Development Association (AEDA) mission is to provide business and commercial development services to new and existing businesses, so the businesses can grow and expand to create jobs, increase revenues and make capital investments.

Founded in 1976, Colorado Enterprise Fund (CEF) is an award-winning nonprofit small business lender and certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides loans up to $1,000,000 to Colorado-based small businesses and startups unable to secure traditional bank financing. With a mission to accelerate community prosperity by supporting small businesses and economic development, CEF has disbursed over $315 million in capital to more than 8,400 businesses to help create and retain over 32,500 jobs in Colorado. CEF offers many different loan solutions to meet our borrowers needs. CEF provides flexible, low-barrier loans to be used for working capital, equipment, inventory, business purchase, property improvements, and more. CEF is more than just an SBA microlender, providing loans for business debt consolidation, gap financing, commercial real estate and more. CEF also provides free Business Navigation Services (coaching) to our borrowers. This can include business planning, marketing & sales, finance & accounting, and much more. CEF has provided over 53,000 hours of educational/coaching services to our borrowers.

At Impact Development Fund, we have a passion for helping people. In Colorado, there are too many under-served communities. We’ve made it our mission to assist these communities by providing loans to non-profits, families, and developers.

Denver Economic Development and Opportunity (DEDO) is creating an economy that works for everyone. We work to ensure the success of Denver’s economy is shared by our residents, businesses, and neighborhoods – because everyone deserves the opportunity to build a future. We do this through four divisions: Workforce Services, Neighborhood Equity & Stabilization (NEST), Division of Small Business Opportunity (DSBO), and Business Development.

Beneficial State Bank, is an FDIC-insured Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that serves businesses, nonprofit organizations, and individuals. Founded in 2007, Beneficial State Bank focuses on economic and environmental sustainability and takes a triple-bottom-line approach to community and environmental banking. We believe that a healthy environment is necessary for economic prosperity. We also believe that we can be a catalyst for positive change in our communities by providing fair, transparent, and sustainable banking products and services. Our vision is of a banking industry that is fair to the person with the least bargaining power; provides access to financial services for all our communities, particularly the traditionally underserved; results in the long-term prosperity of responsible consumers; promotes financial system stability; and contributes to the sustainability of the environmental commons. We call this vision Beneficial Banking.