Virginia Housing and Community Development Corporation (VHCDC) is working to promote and support entrepreneurship, to advance entrepreneurship education and training, to promote entrepreneurship-friendly policies, to connect disadvantaged small businesses to capital and credit, and to facilitate the commercialization of new technologies and services by small, women, and minority-owned businesses which have great promise for improving the economic welfare of our region. VHCDC is working to assist economically and socially disadvantaged individuals to achieve self-sufficiency, to improve urban and rural housing conditions, to advance housing design and development, to promote people-friendly housing policies, and to better facilitate the commercialization and implementation of new, environmentally-friendly technologies by entrepreneurs and others which have great promise for improving housing construction and maintenance in our region. VHCDC is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt community development corporation. The empowerment-based mission of VHCDC is being realized through its support of entrepreneurship and its innovative approach to making a difference, in Virginia and throughout our region.