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		<title>ACCION Chicago doubles it maximum loan size to $50,000</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Elizabeth Dwyer On January 11th Senator Richard Durbin visited ACCION Chicago and our successful client Gorilla Gourmet to help us announce exciting news: After more than a decade of offering loans up to $25,000, ACCION Chicago has doubled its maximum loan size to $50,000. “We are giving small businesses a bigger chance to succeed,” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmicrofinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11713277&amp;post=1256&amp;subd=usmicrofinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[About Spencer Rose: Spencer Rose has lived on the West side of Chicago since the age of seven. He is the founder of Creative Construction, a home repair and remodeling company based out of Chicago. His clientele includes individuals and homes as close as Chicago and as far away as Blue Island, Illinois. If you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmicrofinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11713277&amp;post=1250&amp;subd=usmicrofinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Fashion Designer Helping Women Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Olubukola Adekoje You might know Tory Burch as a fashion designer, but do you know about her work with women entrepreneurs? That’s right. There’s more to the designer than boutique style clothing, shoes and accessories. The Tory Burch Foundation, founded in 2008, “provides economic opportunities to women and their families in the United States.” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmicrofinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11713277&amp;post=1238&amp;subd=usmicrofinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Amy Clinton At ACCION Chicago we spend a lot of time talking numbers with our clients. As a lender, it makes sense that our primary conversations with clients center on how to make their businesses work financially. However, the qualitative aspects of owning and running a small business may be some of the most [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmicrofinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11713277&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=usmicrofinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ACCION Chicago Helps Create Jobs for a Robust Economy</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Olubukola Adekoje Jobs are nearly all we hear about these days, and for good reason. Who doesn&#8217;t know someone currently unemployed and the according hardship? Recently it appears that things are improving. Yet, for all the talk, it would seem like little gets done. Perhaps a little will, through little loans. That’s where ACCION [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=usmicrofinance.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11713277&amp;post=1227&amp;subd=usmicrofinance&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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