The mission of the Community Affairs Unit of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is to provide banks and bank holding companies with information on appropriate programs to help them meet their community development needs. To further this mission, the Unit co-hosted, with the California Reinvestment Committee, a series of workshops in 1998 that brought together California small business technical assistance providers and bankers to identify ways to meet the credit needs of small businesses in California.

Recommendations from these workshops were included in a publication titled Sustainable Economic Development: Developing Effective Partnerships between Banks and Technical Assistance Providers. Among the recommendations were identifying the core competencies of the nonprofit technical assistance industry and publishing a directory of organizations providing technical assistance to small businesses in California. To download these documents, click on the links below.

Sustainable Economic Development - Developing Effective Partnerships Between Banks and Technical Assistance Providers

• Executive Summary
• Introduction
• Download entire report (PDF 190KB)

Helping Small Businesses Grow - Core Competencies of the Nonprofit Technical Assistance Industry

• Executive Summary
• Overview
• Download entire report (PDF 78KB)

Directory of Small Business Technical Assistance Providers in California (May 1999)

• Introduction
• See a list of providers in directory
• Download entire directory (PDF 645KB)

If you have questions or comments, send a message to Community Affairs.