Emma Ruth's Soulful Cuisine and Catering, Inc. is the dream enterprise of Mark Manigault, a local chef who has been cooking since he was a child in his mother’s kitchen. Emma Ruth’s is a tribute to Mark’s late mother who passed in 2008. She always expressed her love through her food and taught Mark how to cook with [Read More]

Executive Director Linda MacFarlane has announced her retirement from the Community Loan Fund. Under her leadership over the past eleven years, the Community Loan Fund has grown its small business and nonprofit loan portfolio dramatically while expanding public-private partnerships to serve the community. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Community Loan Fund played an essential role administering relief grants for small businesses [Read More]

Albany, NY-– The Community Loan Fund of the Capital Region is thrilled to announce the return of the 9-Week Business Planning Course to an in-person format for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first class will be held on Wednesday, January 22nd from 5:30-8:30 and will run concurrently on Wednesday evenings until March 26th. The class [Read More]