Economic & Community Development Institute

ECDI is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to serving underserved and underbanked small business owners. Our goal is to assure that every entrepreneur – regardless of where they came from, where they live, their gender or their race – has access to funding and the business mentoring services they need to succeed. 

We're based in Columbus, with offices in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Akron and Toledo. For small business clients in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana, we serve a one-stop resource center.