Banking & Finance  April 25, 2019

Colorado Enterprise Fund wins SBA award

DENVER — The Colorado Enterprise Fund has won the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Jody C. Raskind Lender Award, according to an SBA news release.

The award is given annually to “a mission-focused lender that has distinguished itself in helping small businesses start, grow and expand,” the release said.

The fund is a nonprofit lender that provides loans to small businesses unable to obtain traditional bank funding.

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“The Jody C. Raskind Lender Award is the most prestigious award presented by the SBA to a

mission-based community lender nationwide,” Frances Padilla, SBA’s Colorado District

Director, said in a prepared statement. “I congratulate Ceyl Prinster, and the entire staff at the Colorado Enterprise Fund, for their dedication to providing access to capital and technical training to our statewide small business community.”

The award will be presented May 10 at a ceremony in Washington, D.C.

DENVER — The Colorado Enterprise Fund has won the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Jody C. Raskind Lender Award, according to an SBA news release.

The award is given annually to “a mission-focused lender that has distinguished itself in helping small businesses start, grow and expand,” the release said.

The fund is a nonprofit lender that provides loans to small businesses unable to obtain traditional bank funding.

“The Jody C. Raskind Lender Award is the most prestigious award presented by the SBA to a

mission-based community lender nationwide,” Frances Padilla, SBA’s Colorado District

Director, said in a prepared statement. “I congratulate Ceyl Prinster, and the entire…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.
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