Climb Fund

Technical Assistance ProgramTechnical Assistance ProgramCoupled with its loan products, the organization provides both pre-loan counseling to prospective applicants and intensive post-loan developmental services to its borrowers. Such assistance occurs in various forums: one-on-one counseling, group sessions, workshops, seminars, classes, exhibitions, and site visits. Many of the group sessions are conducted in collaboration with local community resources such as SBDC, SCORE, or the SBA, just to name a few. Throughout the year, the Organization provided over 1,500 entrepreneurs some level of technical assistance at more than 150 seminars, workshops, or networking events.The organization views its one-on-one technical assistance as critical to providing a foundation for success and offers such assistance through several vehicles of delivery to include consultant team, staff, and its community resources. The consultant team allows the Organization to provide specialized training by offering bookkeeping and QuickBooks training and business counseling through its site visit program. During the year, 371 businesses have received almost 6,000 hours of specialized training.