Neighborhood Development Center

Why Give To NDC?

A special message from Renay Dossman, CEO of Neighborhood Development Center:

" This year, I want to encourage you to give to NDC! NDC exists to support entrepreneurs in achieving their small business dreams. We do this to create racial and economic equity in neighborhoods that have historically been disinvested. Today, NDC has a 30-year track record of training over 6,000 entrepreneurs, providing over 75,000 hours of technical assistance, and deployed over $30MM in lending. PLUS, we have 5 small business incubators that give businesses the opportunity to have affordable commercial real estate space to start and grow their dream.

I know you are getting a lot of requests on this special day, but please remember NDC. Thank you!"

About Neighborhood Development Center

NDC believes our success and innovation is a result of regular, systematic evaluation. We know our work only matters if it has a real and definable impact on our entrepreneurs and their communities.

In the mid-1980s, our founder, Mihailo Temali, saw many mom-and-pop businesses across St. Paul shutter their doors, causing a ripple effect throughout the community. Temali saw the impact of this and felt called to revitalize the neighborhood he was a part of. This resulted in the foundations of NDC and a need for an organization that would empower the core of community through entrepreneurship. 

Today, NDC is a thriving organization with an ever-expanding mission to empower the dreams and daring of local entrepreneurs. NDC offers a range of programs and services for any stage of business plans. From startup to expansion, we partner with business owners to achieve their goals and ambitions step by step. 

We are nationally recognized for our model of community development and are proud to push this vision forward. We train entrepreneurs to build sustainable, well-built businesses with careful individualization for each client. We currently have more than 500 entrepreneurs in business. Through continued partnership, entrepreneurs from all walks of life are working to achieve prosperity all while empowering the communities that they serve. 

NDC builds strong entrepreneurs. Entrepreneurs build strong neighborhoods.