Requests for U.S. Small Business Administration loans can be made directly to community development corporations. Check with your local bank to see if there is a community development corporation in your city. Most of the income goes toward paying for the staff, supplies, food, and equipment needed to operate a quality program. Therefore, many programs typically find it difficult to break even during the first years of operation. Centers which do experience a profit typically don't begin to see a profit until at least 4-5 years after the program opens.
Many centers continue to struggle to simply break even.
A list of important agencies to contact is listed in the next section.