Our Business is Helping Business
WEDCO’s mission is to promote and support businesses and the creation of employment opportunities by providing development assistance and financing.
The purpose of WEDCO’s financing is to retain and create employment opportunities for area residents. The primary criteria is the retention and/or expansion of the regional employment base, leveraging additional financial resources, and demonstration of the borrower’s ability to repay.
WEDCO is a private nonprofit 501 (c)(3) regional economic development corporation serving businesses of all sizes in the New Hampshire towns of Brookfield, Effingham, Farmington, Milton, Middleton, Moultonborough, New Durham, Sandwich, Tuftonboro, Wakefield, Wolfeboro, etc.
Grants, loans offered to local small businesses through WEDCO
WOLFEBORO — While there has been a lot of bad news recently when it comes to businesses and the economy, the Wentworth Economic Development Corp., Inc. (WEDCO) has some good news for local businesses. WEDCO recently closed on a United States Department of...
SBDC BUSINESS ADVISOR AVAILABLE WEEKLY
The NH Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC) partnering with Wentworth Economic Development Corporation, Inc. (WEDCO) are offering business advising services. These services are effective, confidential and free to aspiring and active business owners in the...
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Despite running into roadblocks when it came time to obtain financing from traditional banks, Kimberly Prause, owner of the Cup and Crumb in Moultonborough, turned to Wentworth Economic Development Corporation (WEDCO). From WEDCO, she received a $65,000 loan to work in concert with a construction loan from Meredith Village Savings Bank.
“Without WEDCO, I don’t think we would have opened,” Kim says, looking back. And certainly, Cup & Crumb would never have become an anchor in the newly opened Berry Pond Corner with two full-time and 12 part-time employees in summer, and 8-9 staff in winter.