Your Business Has What It Takes!
We’ll help you prove it!
With over 50 years of experience supporting small businesses assess their needs, gaps, and opportunities, we’re confident that we can help you overcome your business challenges.
Our holistic approach is built on the 3 C’s: one-on-one consulting and access to capital, and connections.
Connect with us to explore our services.
Hear how three MEDA clients turned their potential into success.
Invest in Minnesota’s Small Business Owners
Why invest in MEDA?
Your donation champions small business owners who have been historically left behind. We need your financial support to provide robust consulting and lending services to small business owners. Your gift is a vote for economic equity that empowers local BIPOC entrepreneurs and helps businesses grow. MEDA helps entrepreneurs turn their potential into success.
MN PROMISE Act
The Providing Resources & Opportunity & Maximizing Investments in Striving Entrepreneurs (PROMISE) Loan Program, is a state-funded program that provides loans to small businesses located in specific, designated areas of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Business Consulting
Trusted business advisors that help position small business owners for growth.
Contract Opportunities
Connect to public and private contracts that change the game for small businesses.
Ready to get started?
Let MEDA help you accelerate your business.
Beyond Borders
Create thriving communities through equal economic participation.
Together, we can grow MEDA to serve as a go-to resource that is fiercely accountable to our mission of helping underserved entrepreneurs succeed.
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New Delivery and Revenue Models
Research, Policy, and Advocacy
Potential for Longer-Term M&A to Enable Scale
Improvements in Technology, Organization, and Marketing Infrastructure
Increased Individual and Team Accountability to Metrics and Goals
Loan Capital and Philanthropy
Want to help make an impact?
Business volunteers can leverage their expertise to help underserved entrepreneurs grow & scale their business.
About MEDA
MEDA was founded in 1971. Our founders believed wealth creation is key to creating economic equity and that successful entrepreneurship is the clearest path to creating wealth. MEDA fulfills its mission by providing integrated, wrap-around services in the three areas all entrepreneurs need to succeed: business consulting, access to capital, and connections. In over 50 years, MEDA has served more than thousands of entrepreneurs.