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Our history.
NDC was created in 1993 by Western Initiatives for Neighborhood Development (WIND), a community development corporation and subsidiary to St. Paul's Western Bank. Inspired by visits to Chicago's South Shore Bank, former Western Bank Chairman William Sands, Board Member Joseph Errigo, and Mihailo Temali sponsored the 1990 establishment of WIND to support local economic revitalization initiatives in core areas of poverty in St. Paul and Minneapolis.
Initially offering only business training, NDC quickly expanded its offerings to include financing, training, and real estate services. In addition to a high-level of growth in its program offerings, the demand for its programs has resulted in NDC more than doubling its staff, increasing its alumni services and adding new language skills services to support Hmong, Somali, Oromo and Spanish-speaking program participants.
