Renee Turning Heart, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota, started a successful business with the help of a lending program aimed at low-income entrepreneurs.
Turning Heart lost her job and turned to quilts to make ends meet. But she found herself at a dead end when banks kept rejecting her for loans.
That's when Trickle Up, a New York-based organization, stepped in to help Turning Heart get off the ground and establish a credit history. Turning Heart now makes as much as $1,200 a month from selling quilts and has found a new job at the tribe's business center.
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A Helping Hand
(The Wall Street Journal 11/29)
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Trickle Up - http://www.trickleup.org
Lending program helped Indian woman start business
Monday, November 29, 2004
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