The Vermont Community Loan Fund (VCLF) is hiring a Business Advisor to provide a variety of financial and business management advisement, technical assistance, and related educational services to new and existing small and micro businesses and organizations as part of VCLF’s Business Resource Center. Read More
Read all about VCLF's restaurant owner/chef borrowers, and find out what they've been cooking up! Read More
“When you’re starting up a business, there are a lot of things you need to know, and a lot of resources to know about. The Loan Fund was there to direct me down the right path.” Read More
Customers, employees and community members – both the two-and four-legged varieties – know they can count on Ned Robinson who, along with his wife Shannon Mead, recently purchased Richmond’s The Crate Escape. I’ve always loved dogs, he admits..Read More
VCLF's new Career Technical Education and Rehabilitation Experiential Learning Program and Revolving Loan Fund will support training of a new generation of skilled building trades workers. Plus our latest housing loans and social impacts!.Read More
A New Lending Initiative Helps Vermonters of Color Launch and Build Businesses - Seven Days goes in-depth on the development of VCLF’s Justice Forward Fund, and new JFF borrowers Burlington Trolley Tours and Haji Driving Academy..Read More
Catherine Turyamureeba can’t forget the day she climbed into an Uber and uttered a few words providing directions to the driver. To her surprise, he immediately recognized her distinctive Ugandan accent. Catherine and her driver, Hannington Kasagga, shared that they’d both emigrated to Vermont from Uganda, as had Catherine’s sister, Barbara Asiimwe. A friendship - and then a business - was launched..Read More
Following the Vermont State Legislature’s $15 million dollar appropriation to establish a new revolving loan fund supporting educational workforce development, the Vermont Community Loan Fund has been selected by the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board (VHCB) to develop and launch this new initiative..Read More
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