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Accion receives $2 million grant to help Phoenix and Tucson entrepreneurs

Accion LLC, a nonprofit that helps Phoenix entrepreneurs with business loans, has received a $2 million award. Albuquerque-based Accion received the money Sept. 29 from the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. The $2 million grant will fuel lending activity and organizational support in funding 285 micro-enterprise loans in Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico. The money is expected to create more than 700 jobs across the three-state region. “Last…

 

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