NMCC, through its non-profit parent, also provides capacity-building services that are distinct from our investment activities. NMCC delivers an array of expertise ranging from finance to marketing and product development. We focus on helping businesses develop a clear vision and growth plan. We then help them translate this vision into specific, measurable and realistic action steps.

The advantages offered by NMCC’s unique organizational structure, allow us to develop partnerships that we believe will nurture future economies.  This has spurred formal engagement with Native American tribes and Pueblos because they offer enormous opportunity and leadership for this vision. NMCC’s Native Entrepreneur in Residence (NEIR) program was started in 2014 to implement this vision. This was followed by the Financial & Business Basics (FBB) program in 2018, and Digital Media and Marketing Basics in 2020. 

Thanks to the support of many partners, since inception, NMCC’s venture fund has:

• invested over $10.6 million in New Mexico companies who have hired or retained 261 employees;

• brought specialized business expertise and education to over 500 small businesses;

• provided more than 600 well-paying jobs for residents of lower income areas, primarily lower wage workers who through our efforts are earning a higher wage and are more likely to have access to health care than their counterparts at similar companies; and,

• provided business and management education to more than 1,000 high-potential entrepreneurs to improve their ability to attract financing needed for accelerated and long-term growth.

NMCC employs a team of service-oriented, highly qualified professionals whose work is complemented by a cadre of high-level business consultants.  A seven-member national Board of Directors oversees the organization.