Client Highlight | Lending & Loans
Safeway Home Healthcare was inspired by Amare’s mother, who worked for years as a Personal Care Assistant (PCA). And as business boomed, Amare decided to expand Safeway’s team and services.
Lending & Loans | Shared Ownership
May Day Cafe transitions from a sole proprietor to a worker-owned cooperative.
Policy & Advocacy
Shared Ownership
MCCD’s Shared Ownership team has hit the ground running in 2025 to support cooperative businesses across Minnesota, particularly those in the home and community-based services (HCBS) sector.
Client Highlight | Lending & Loans | Small Business Development
For years, Xiong and Xiong spent their weekdays working full-time jobs and their weekends selling baked goods at farmer’s markets across the Twin Cities metro, where their banana bread, sourdough loaves, and macarons quickly became hits among market goers.
A recent executive order by the Trump Administration threatens to dismantle the CDFI Fund, impacting community development across the country.
Policy & Advocacy | Press Release
There’s a multi-sector insurance crisis in Minnesota—and a new bipartisan bill, SF 2205, introduced this week in the state legislature aims to identify solutions to Minnesota’s growing property insurance crisis to better support the millions of Minnesotans that rely on it.
More than a hundred housing advocates and legislative champions came together at the Minnesota State Capitol for the 3rd Annual Start with Home Rally last week.
Small Business Development
As I start my eighth legislative session with MCCD, I can’t help but reflect on the lawmaker that is no longer with us, Senator Kari Dziedzic.
While the work of the Minnesota legislature impacts everyone, advocating at the State Capitol can feel intimidating. But input from local leaders in nonprofit affordable housing and small business development is essential to securing policies that advance racial and economic justice statewide.
The Minnesota state legislature wrapped up its work by 11:59 pm on Sunday, May 19, 2024. It will be remembered as one of the most chaotic endings to a legislative session in Minnesota history.
