DreamSpring, known for providing small business loans and assistance to entrepreneurs in 27 states, is expanding its English-Spanish online technical assistance and training materials, as well as one-on-one technical assistance, thanks to more than $500,000 received from a Congressionally Directed Spending appropriation, part of the bipartisan Fiscal Year 2024 (FY24) Financial Services and General Government Bill. U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, helped secure the funds that are part of $28 million for 52 projects in New Mexico during the Senate’s passage of six bipartisan appropriations bills on March 23, 2024.