World Trade Center Small Business Recovery Fund

Help Small Businesses in New York: Contribute to the Fund

As a result of the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001 an estimated 14,632 businesses in lower Manhattan were destroyed, damaged or significantly disrupted. An additional 30,000 firms in the secondary impact area in New York City were also impacted.

You can help bring those businesses back. The New York Business Development Corporation (NYBDC) and the New York State Small Business Development Center established the World Trade Center Small Business Recovery Fund, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit corporation, in 2001 to help rebuild the small business community in New York City. The Fund provides low-interest loans to speed the recovery of affected small and medium-sized businesses --the life blood of commerce in the city. In the last five years, the WTCSBRF provided hundreds of loans to small businesses in the five boroughs of New York City, and there is a continuing need for assistance. The landscape of lower Manhattan has changed forever, and it will take many years for the business community to fully recover. Therefore, the Fund is still making loans and continuing to support the long-term recovery of small businesses crippled by the disaster.

Send contributions to:
World Trade Center Small Business Recovery Fund, Inc.
c/o The New York Business Development Corporation
P.O. Box 738
Albany, New York 12201-0738

Within New York State
Tel: (800) 732-SBDC (7232)
Outside New York State: (518) 443-5398

The fund is administered and underwritten by the New York Business Development Corporation and the WTCSBRF, Inc.  All contributions go directly to the small businesses for recovery efforts.