As a nonprofit Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI), Working Solutions offers loans ranging from $5,000 to $100,000 to start-up and early-stage businesses in California. No minimum credit score, no prepayment penalties, and every loan is paired with free consulting.

California Small Business Loan Match is a new, no-cost lender-match tool provided by IBank. Loan Match makes it easier for California entrepreneurs to find trusted loans by gathering dozens of pre-vetted lenders in one place for a one-stop experience.

Working Solutions and Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center, with the support of the D10 Implementation Committee, are providing loans and free consulting to start-up and early-stage businesses in San Francisco’s Supervisorial District 10. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.

Working Solutions is administering the City of Berkeley's COVID-19 Resiliency Loan Program, which is funded by the Economic Development Administration and provides low-interest loans coupled with free consulting to businesses in Berkeley that have been impacted by the pandemic.

The Good Money Guide helps entrepreneurs in all stages of business identify and prepare to seek funding from organizations that are locally-based, mission driven, and committed to local reinvestment, and that avoid harmful or extractive products and unfair or misleading practices and pricing.

The Good Money Guide is available in English and Spanish.