Mission: DreamSpring (formerly Accion serving Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico and Texas) increases access to business credit, makes loans, and provides training that enables entrepreneurs to realize their dreams and be catalysts for positive economic and social change. Our unique approach to small business microlending can trace its roots back more than 40 years with efforts to reduce extreme poverty in Latin America. Now, the organization supports small business owners in 19 states to bolster income and enhance economic security for themselves, their families, and their communities. Since making our first loan in 1994, we have helped more than 29,000 small businesses working in some of these states' most underserved urban neighborhoods and most isolated rural communities. (Less)

DreamSpring is a 501(c)(3) organization, with an IRS ruling year of 1995, and donations are tax-deductible.