Thread Capital and our client TECPark were recently featured in the Triad Business Journal as part of a series of articles sponsored by Wells Fargo. To read the other articles in the series click here Wells Fargo’s support of small business loans helps resilient...

RALEIGH, NC – Thread Capital, a subsidiary of the North Carolina Rural Center, and Array Community Development Corporation announced today the launch of a new loan program designed to foster shellfish aquaculture in coastal North Carolina. The Shellfish Growers...

The Main Point… Nutrition. Whether it is top of mind for you, something you take for granted, or something you’ve not considered, the options available to us and the choices we make have a huge impact on the quality of our lives. Poor nutrition can lead to...

The Main Point… Health – financial health, mental health, and physical health – are critical components of a community’s ecosystem. The last two years have put a strain on those components, especially for those entrepreneurs involved in providing such services....

The Main Point…. When the practice of redlining was outlawed about 50 years ago, the economic challenges of entrepreneurs in underserved communities, who were also people of color, did not disappear. Such neighborhoods remain ripe, even today, for predatory lenders,...