Jersey City Economic Development Corporation
Building Businesses. Building Lives.
Community Lending & Investment Corporation of Jersey City (CLIC) is dedicated to supporting small businesses and individual entrepreneurs by providing technical assistance and access to loans.
Community Lending & Investment Corporation of
Jersey City (CLIC)
is an incorporated subsidiary of the Jersey City Economic Development Corporation dedicated to supporting for-profit small businesses and individual entrepreneurs by providing technical assistance and access to loans.

CLIC can help you if …
• You own, or plan to own, a business in Jersey City
• You plan to relocate your business to Jersey City
• You have found it difficult to obtain traditional credit

Founded in 1998, CLIC’s economic goals are:
  • To provide business opportunities to qualified individuals, especially minorities and women;
  • To create and retain private-sector jobs in Jersey City, particularly those that will benefit individuals in low- and moderate-income brackets;
  • To encourage neighborhood business development that will succeed, not just survive;
  • To stimulate private investment in local small for-profit businesses;
  • To make the best use of Federal, State and private-sector funds in ways that will provide maximum financing availability for Jersey City’s small businesses.
To contact CLIC please call Pete Olmeda at 201-333-7797, ext. 12 or email polmeda@jcedc.org.
CLIC Brochure
About CLIC
Technical Assistance
CLIC Loans
Paid for by the
Jersey City Urban Enterprise
Zone Program
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