Financing Resources

Financing Resources
  •  Small Business Loan Modifications and Forgiveness (Business Oregon)
    • Loan modifications for direct loan programs administered by Business Oregon (Oregon Business Development Fund, Entrepreneurial Development Loan Fund, Oregon Royalty Fund) that defer payments and interest, with no fees.

    • Loan modifications for the Business Oregon loan guarantee and loan loss reserve programs (Credit Enhancement Fund, Capital Access Program).

    • Forgiveness of existing loans through Business Oregon to Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), to strengthen the CDFIs' financial position and ability to continue small business lending.

  • Business Oregon—the state's economic development agency—operates several direct loan and loan guarantee programs for small businesses.

    • Entrepreneurial Development Loan Fund (EDLF) offers direct loans to help start-ups, micro-enterprises and small businesses expand or become established in Oregon.

    • Oregon Business Development Fund (OBDF) provides direct loans that can be used for permanent working capital. Participants must create or retain jobs and must typically be a traded-sector business in manufacturing, processing or distribution.

    • Oregon Royalty Fund (ORF) provides direct loans to help early stage (post R & D and prototyping), scalable, and high-margin small businesses obtain short-term working capital.

    • Capital Access (CAP) provides a form of loan portfolio loss reserve so financial institutions may make business loans that carry higher than conventional risks while complying with federal and state banking regulations.

    • Credit Enhancement Fund (CEF) provides loan guarantees to financial institutions in order to increase capital availability to small businesses.

  • Federal Reserve Main Street Program: The Federal Reserve has established a Main Street Lending Program to support lending to small- and medium-sized businesses that were in sound financial condition before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The program will operate through three facilities
    • Main Street New Loan Facility (MSNLF), term sheet
    • Main Street Priority Loan Facility (MSPLF), term sheet
    • Main Street Expanded Loan Facility (MSELF), term sheet
    • Who can help me with this? To access the program, contact your bank/credit union and ask if they're participating in the program. There is no separate federal application, it is up to banks to offer the loan product, or not.