• Training
• Financing
• Ongoing Support
• Business Incubation

• Real Estate Development Initiative (REDI)
• Business & Career Center

NDC recognizes the entrepreneurial talent and energy in inner-city neighborhoods as a critical resource available to revitalize these communities. NDC's goal is to build businesses that grow, prosper, and anchor their own inner-city communities, because NDC knows that neighborhood businesses create new jobs, fill storefronts, and generate a renewed sense of economic vitality. Building successful neighborhood businesses also reaps many other benefits, including role-modeling the value of enterprise, creating community gathering spaces, and bringing needed goods and services to under-served areas.

To help communities reach these goals, NDC partners with 18 neighborhood and ethnic-based organizations to provide entrepreneur training, financing, ongoing support and real state services in the low-income neighborhoods of Minneapolis and St. Paul (listed below), as well as in five distinct ethnic groups: African Americans, Native Africans, Hmong, American Indians and Latinos.

The starting point for any entrepreneur in our organization is the training program. To qualify, an applicant must:

• Live in or operate a business in the following NDC targeted neighborhoods:

Minneapolis Service Area: Phillips, Ventura Village, Whittier, Cedar-Riverside, Seward, Near North, Sumner-Glenwood, Harrison, Willard-Hay, Jordan, Hawthorne, McKinley, Folwell, Cleveland, Victory, Camden, Shingle Creek and Lind-Bohamon.

St. Paul Service Area: Payne-Phalen, North End, Frogtown, Summit-University, Hamline- Midway, Dayton's Bluff, Mounds Park, and District Del Sol.

• If subsidized services are needed, applicant's income must be below 80% of the median family income (per sliding fee schedule). Students who do not qualify for subsidized services may still apply for the training program and pay the full fee of $600.00 for the training classes; however, access to loans and technical assistance and additional services are not available.

Our ethnic-based training classes are available to members of the Latino, Hmong, American Indian, and African (Somali, Oromo, etc.) communities regardless of where they live. While scholarships are available to members of these communities for the training, the valuable supporting services such as technical assistance and financing are not available outside of the above identified target service areas in Minneapolis and St. Paul.