The Dunbar: Revitalizing our Communities
2020 brought the world unprecedented challenges. Among them – losing our communities as we remained home isolated from friends, family and neighbors. As we resume activities, The Dunbar Pavilion, a…
More than a Loan: Consulting & Coaching
Consulting and coaching that helps small businesses and nonprofits ensure sustainability and, at some point if needed, qualify for traditional bank loans, is a key part of the mission of…
Cash Flow Loan Helps Theatre Renovate New Campus
Congratulations to Live Theatre Workshop! After renting for more than two decades in the same location, renovations of a new campus are underway and the Tucson-based nonprofit arts organization will…
Photo credit: Kerry Whelan
“With a clear path for re-payment, taking out a loan made the most sense for the market.”
Who doesn’t love more shade in Tucson? A loan from Growth Partners Arizona means the nonprofit Heirloom Farmers Markets (HFM) can quickly add 25% more shade at their Rillito River Park…
Lisa Bowden
Bridge Loan Meet Needs of Nonprofit
Funding from a major university was slower than anticipated, but soon will be available to Kore Press Institute. Growth Partners Arizona provided a bridge loan to help Kore with cash…
Kevin Brown, International School of Tucson
Debt financing can be a way to achieve financial stability and sustainability.
Many nonprofit leaders and boards are uncomfortable with the thought of borrowing money, but properly structured and utilized debt can be a tool to achieving an organization's strategic goals. A…
Esperanza En Escalante Executive Director Phyllis Russell and Program Services Coordinator Delia Gastelum in front of previously completed housing for homeless veterans. 50 more units are in the works with help from GPAz.
Homeless Veterans will have more options
50,000 veterans are homeless every night, according to Esperanza En Escalante. The nonprofit is doing something about that by providing transitional and permanent housing for homeless veterans and their families.…
Indigenous Human Rights Organization Moves HQ to Tucson
The International Indian Treaty Council (IITC) owns its own office building for the first time in the organization’s 44-year history thanks to generous donors and an NPLF loan. The new Tucson headquarters is on Ajo Way, across from the VA Hospital complex.
They Had Done Their Homework
Board approval, check. Engineering plans, check. Capital Campaign, check. Loan arranged, check…until, through no fault of Open Doors Community School, the loan fell through. At the suggestion of a school…
It was a Calculated Risk
Arizona Theatre Company Managing Director Billy Russo wanted the 50th anniversary to invigorate and draw the community to the theatre.