VCLF is hiring a Director of Housing & Community Facilities Programs. This position is responsible for preparing, underwriting and processing loan applications, outreach/relationship-building/marketing to affordable housing developers and nonprofit service providers, providing technical assistance to organizations for loan preparation, and overseeing the VCLF’s portfolio of housing and community facilities loans. 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