Mineral County Economic Development Corporation (MCEDC) is a proud member of the Montana Certified Regional Development Corporation (CRDC) network. Montana’s eleven CRDCs cover the vastness of our state, providing reliable, professional economic and community development services to rural, urban and tribal communities and have a decades-long record of success in areas that include small business lending, infrastructure financing, business plan development, grant writing, value-added agriculture, opportunity zone investment and brownfields redevelopment, to name a few.

As CRDCs, we work with the private and public sectors to assure they have the resources they need to succeed and that no region of our state is left behind.  Through our professional expertise in the area of community and economic development, CRDCs understand the importance of leveraging scarce resources. Accordingly, we partner with government agencies and the private sector to achieve results that otherwise simply would not exist. The Montana CRDC Network is efficient, resilient, diverse and impactful.

As a member of the  State of Montana CRDC, we have formed a partnership with Lake, Mineral and Sanders counties. Our partners include, the Mission West Community Development Partners the Sanders County Community Development Corporation (SCCDC) and the Sanders County Community Housing Organization (SCCHO).

Our work to enhance the communities of western Montana is done through sourcing capital and human resources to help the region’s business sector add jobs and expand the tax base, while also assuring a strong foundation built on solid community infrastructure and an extraordinary quality of life.

The support of the U.S. Commerce Department’s Economic Development Administration (EDA) is vital to Western Montana.

The EDA works through districts to help lead the locally-based, regionally driven economic development planning process that leverages the involvement of the public, private and non-profit sectors to establish a strategic blueprint (i.e., an economic development roadmap) for regional collaboration. Districts are designed to represent multi-county areas. They serve and represent the entire geographic area of the region.

MCEDC is a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) sponsored by the U.S. Department of Treasury.

As a CDFI we provide affordable financing and related services to low-income communities and populations that lack access to affordable credit, capital, and financial services