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
“Housing is a major wealth-building asset,” says Matthew Cropp, board treasurer of the Vermont Real Estate Cooperative (VREC). It’s an asset, he’s quick to note, that’s unattainable for far too many. VREC is working to change that. Read More
The Vermont Community Loan Fund is now accepting loan applications through its SPROUT program, a low-interest loan program for emerging Vermont working lands entrepreneurs including farms, food producers & processors, foresters, forest products businesses and others in the start-up and early stages of their operations..Read More
Read all about the Loan Fund's $384,807 in 3rd Quarter 2020 lending, including the story of KAD Models & Prototypes, whose founder returns home, bringing advanced tech manufacturing and jobs to Central Vermont..Read More
Even in the midst of a global pandemic, an ongoing climate emergency and the rising call for a national reckoning on racial justice, the Loan Fund’s work has yielded a remarkable harvest already in 2020..Read More
Read about VCLF's commitment to opening doors and creating access in our 2019 Annual Report, Access to Success: Opportunity for All Vermonters.Read More