If you’re planning to start a business or expand an existing business, you might need financing help. SBA participates in a number of loan programs designed for business owners who may have trouble qualifying for a traditional bank loan.
To start the process, you should our professionals who have expertise in SBA programs. SBA loan applications are structured to meet SBA requirements, so that the loan is eligible for an SBA guarantee. This guarantee represents the portion of the loan that SBA will repay to the lender if you default on your loan payments.
SBA loans are designing for mulitple categories:
Starting and Expanding Business
Basic Loan Program
Gives 7(a) loans to eligible borrowers for starting, acquiring and expanding a small business. This type of loan is the most basic and the most used within SBA's business loan programs. Borrowers must apply through a participating lender institution.
BaCertified Development Company Loan Program
Microloan Program
Disaster Loans
Disaster Assistance Loans
Provide financial assistance to victims of disasters or to individuals in a declared disaster area. You may be eligible for this type of loan even if you don't own a business.
Economic Injury Loans
Assist small businesses, small agricultural cooperatives and nonprofit organizations as they recover from economic losses resulting from physical disaster or an agricultural production disaster.
Export Assistance Loans
Export Express
Provide exporters and lenders with a streamlined method of obtaining financing for loans and lines of credit up to $500,000. Lenders use their own credit decision process and loan documentation; exporters get access to their funds faster. SBA provides an expedited eligibility review with a response in less than 24 hours.
Export Working Capital
Offers loans targeted at businesses that are able to generate export sales but need additional working capital to support these opportunities.
International Trade Loans
Gives term loans that are designed for businesses that plan to start/continue exporting or those that that have been adversely affected by competition from imports. The proceeds of the loan must enable the borrower to be in a better position to compete.
Veteran and Military Community Loans
Military Reservist Economic Injury Disaster Loan
Offers funds to eligible small businesses to meet ordinary and necessary operating expenses that could have been met, but are unable to meet, because an essential employee was "called-up" to active duty in their role as a military reservist.
Special Purpose Loans
CAPLines
Help small businesses meet their short-term and cyclical working-capital needs through the SBA umbrella program called CAPLines.
Pollution Control Loans
Provides financing to eligible small businesses for the planning, design or installation of a pollution control facility.
U.S. Community Adjustment And Investment Program (CAIP)
CAIP is a program established to assist U.S. companies that are doing business in areas of the country that have been negatively affected by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). To be eligible, a business must reside in a county noted as being negatively affected by NAFTA, based on job losses and the unemployment rate of the county.
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