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Partnership

The Federal Reserve Banks partner with a network of local, regional, and national organizations that have strong relationships with small business owners to disseminate the survey. Become a partner to get access to data-driven reports about your small business network.

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About Being a Partner

Our partner organizations are the most important part of the Small Business Credit Survey, encouraging small businesses to respond to the survey. The large number of annual survey responses from small businesses in turn allows our partner organizations to understand and prioritize the key issues that small businesses are facing. This allows for partner organizations to be able to advocate for better policies, produce higher impact programming, and respond quickly to emerging issues. Partner organizations that reach a certain threshold of responses will receive benchmark reports that enable them to compare the experiences of their small business networks with other small business owners.

By working with a diverse network of more than 400 small business organizations, including local, regional, and national ones, the Federal Reserve Banks are able to collect national information on small business conditions. This survey model has enabled us to reach businesses that tend to be under-represented in other surveys, including startups, rural, women-owned, and minority-owned firms.

Read our Partner Policy.

See a list of our participating partners for the 2022 survey.

“The Federal Reserve Banks’ Small Business Credit Survey is like a GPS for Access to Capital. The data guides our Business Advisors to the principal sources for small business debt capital — to where we can likely find the best fit and the highest likelihood for success. Simply put, The FED Survey makes us more efficient while allowing us to benchmark our overall results against others."

"The Small Business Credit Survey is an essential resource to New York City. It is the best public resource we have to understand the capital needs of small businesses, both within NYC and across the country."

Access to capital continues to be a top challenge that small business owners face. We are appreciative of our partnership with the Federal Reserve Bank in helping to shed light on this important issue. This information helps us ensure we continue to meet the ever-changing needs of small businesses in our state."

"We use the survey results to gain additional insight into what small businesses need and where they are having troubles. The information helps us to make sure we are providing the services small businesses in Iowa want and need."

"As a data-driven organization, Interise uses the Small Business Credit Survey results to benchmark our own impact assessment data from StreetWise ‘MBA’ alumni. We look forward to our annual partnership with the Federal Reserve Banks and use the survey as a robust source for research."

Become a Partner

Join a diverse network of more than 400 small business organizations that collaborate with the Federal Reserve Banks and help them collect information on small business conditions.