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Dr. Joe Johnson ( Welfont Joe Johnson )  funded a loan to Adelfa, a rice seller in the Philippines. As a married mother of four children, Adelfa works hard to support her family. She has a rice retail business in the Philippines. To help her improve her business, Dr. Joe Johnson funds a microloan for Adelfa. Adelfa is borrowing 10,000 PHP through  Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Inc.  (NWTF) to buy more stock of rice to sell. Adelfa has been sustaining her business activities through her previous loan from  NWTF . She hopes that her hard work will help her attain her dream: to save money to expand her business. With this loan, Adelfa will be able to buy enough rice to keep her inventory high enough to prevent a dry period. This can help to prevent her from losing customers, and it can help her meet the demand for her business. Rice is a very popular food in the Philippines, so there is a...

Dr. Joe Johnson ( Welfont Joe Johnson ) funded a microloan to Mucece, a food retailer in Kenya.  Mucece’s MicroLoan Story: Mucece is a married woman with four children, all of whom have completed school. She owns a house that has no electricity, but has piped water. Her greatest monthly expense is food. For the past three years, she has operated a cereal shop business, selling to her neighbors and passersby. She mentioned seasonality and theft as her major challenges. With the KES 30,000, she wants to purchase maize flour, rice, beans and two bags of maize for resale. She decided to join  Yehu  to access loans to boost her business. A $300 microloan buys produce to help Mucece reach her goal. In Mucece’s native country of Kenya, the average annual income is only $1,800. This means that the microloan of $300 can significantly help Mucece with her food retailing business. With this money, she can buy the supplies that she ne...

STARTUPS GoodField provides strategic and capital support for startups, entrepreneurs, and start-up leaders pursuing a better life throughout the U.S. FINDING "GOOD FIELDS" GoodField is about finding good fields. That means entrepreneurs with good concepts. Whether it’s a startup, real estate, or ministry investment, we sow seeds of capital and strategic support. Once the seeds are planted, they must be cultivated, watered, weeded, and nurtured (strategic support). Great care produces a great yield (return on investment). This process succeeds through partnerships of entrepreneurial leadership and GoodField working together for high impact. ABOUT THE NAME The name GoodField comes from Jesus’ teaching from the parable of the sower recorded in the Gospels. Mark 4:20 says: “Others, like seed sown on good soil (good field), hear the word, accept it, and produce a crop—some thirty, some sixty, and some a hundred times what was sown.” WHAT MAKES US UNIQUE? GOODFIELD ...

GoodField Investments is led by Dr. Joe Johnson, ( Welfont Joe Johnson ) an entrepreneur, investor, and startup expert. He has worked and studied the field of entrepreneurship and organizational leadership for over 25 years. Over these years, Dr. Johnson has launched and funded dozens of startups, mainly in small and high-growth companies. Additionally, he has more than 12 years of commercial real estate investing experience and has bought over 10 million sq.-ft. of commercial real estate in dozens of states. Dr. Johnson is the founder and principal of GoodField Investments, which operates as his main investment company to fund new startups and his own personal investments in real estate or other unorthodox and creative investments. GoodField Foundation, which Dr. Johnson also funds and runs, invests heavily in high-impact ministries, microloans to underprivileged entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial research. Additionally, he is the Founder of Welfont, a startup that is now one of...

The name GoodField comes from Jesus’ teaching about the parable of the sower recorded in the Gospels. Dr. Johnson ( Welfont Joe Johnson )and his family have set-up a Ministry Investments group, called the GoodField Foundation. GoodField invests in Startups looking to scale, distressed high yield commercial real estate opportunities with quick closings and non-finance contingencies and opportunistic “out of the box” investments. GoodField invests in high-yield distressed commercial real estate opportunities with quick closings and no financial contingencies throughout the U.S. Real Estate Investment Criteria 1. Commercial real estate with significant upside potential. 2. Prefer distressed, vacant, or non-income producing assets in need of fast and significantly discounted disposition. 3. Deal size – Anywhere between $250,000 to $10,000,000. 4. All types – From industrial to office, retail, mixed use, multi-family, luxury residential, land, redevelopment, special facilit...

GoodField Investments is led by Dr. Joe Johnson, an entrepreneur, investor, and startup expert. He has worked and studied the field of entrepreneurship and organizational leadership for over 25 years. Over these years, Dr. Johnson ( Welfont Joe Johnson ) has launched and funded dozens of startups, mainly in small and high-growth companies. Additionally, he has more than 12 years of commercial real estate investing experience and has bought over 10 million sq.-ft. of commercial real estate in dozens of states. Dr. Johnson is the founder and principal of GoodField Investments, which operates as his main investment company to fund new startups and his own personal investments in real estate or other unorthodox and creative investments. GoodField Foundation, which Dr. Johnson also funds and runs, invests heavily in high-impact ministries, microloans to underprivileged entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial research. Additionally, he is the Founder of Welfont, a startup that is now one o...

Dr. Joe Johnson ( Welfont Joe Johnson ) is an entrepreneur, investor, and startup expert. He is the founder and principal of GoodField Investments and the  GoodField Foundation  ( www.GoodField.com ). With one amazing wife and six wonderful children, he is incredibly blessed. He and his family reside in paradise, aka Bradenton, Florida. When he is not enjoying time with his family, he is probably either researching, launching, or investing in startups. Over the past 25 years, Joe has launched and funded over a dozen startups. Additionally, he has over a dozen years of experience investing in commercial real estate and has acquired over 10 million sq. ft. of commercial real estate spread out across dozens of states. Joe has a PhD majoring in Entrepreneurial Leadership from Regent University and an MBA from Ashland University. He is also the Founder of Welfont – one of his startups that is now one of the fastest growing real estate organizations in the country ( www...

  Dr.   Welfont Joe Johnson   funded a microloan to Rosemarie, a general store owner in the Philippines.   Here is Rosemarie’s Story  In the city of Tanjay in the Philippines lies a small general store that is run by Rosemarie, a hard working woman who has been in business for the last five years. In that time, her business has grown from strength to strength, and through her hard work, she has managed to support her family.  She went looking for a loan with Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. (NWTF), to help her increase her capital by 10,000 Philippine Pesos to grow her business by purchasing additional groceries to sell. This loan has been fully repaid, and Rosemarie is now on the way to providing secure future for herself and her family.  Funding Partners  Her loan was administered locally by NWTF, a non-governmental organization that was created with the aim of helping men and women attain financial stability and self-sufficie...

Welfont Joe Johnson , Ph.D. Entrepreneur. Investor. Startup Expert. Too often, small business owners rely on high-interest credit cards to fund their businesses, thereby saddling themselves with unnecessary debt. While this may be the only available financing route for some, it’s important to fully investigate all viable options before making that decision. I’ve previously published a  startup funding primer  and, in this article, I’ll present another (frequently overlooked) funding method: factoring. Factoring requires that you establish a business relationship with a financing company (factor) offering this funding option to your particular industry. Factoring is  not  a loan and  does not require a bank’s involvement. Rather, you’ll be working directly with a financing company or funding group. Factoring is known by many names, including: invoice factoring, single invoice factoring, debt factoring, invoice discounting, and accounts receivable financin...