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
In March, we welcomed Sharon Bernard as our new Senior Accountant. Sharon joined us from Capstone Community Action in Barre, where she served as Director of Finance for seven years. Prior to that, Sharon spent 13 years at National Life of Vermont. Sharon and her husband live in Montpelier, nearby to their two daughters' families.Read More
Raymond Lanza-Weil has joined the Loan Fund as Director of Business Programs. Lanza-Weil comes to VCLF with extensive experience in both the nonprofit and commercial lending sectors. Getting his start underwriting consumer loans at a community bank in California, Lanza-Weil spent a decade underwriting business loans for US Bank in Portland, Oregon before transitioning to nonprofits.Read More
The Vermont Community Loan Fund has been named the 2015 Vermont Mission Lender of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Vermont District Office.Read More
On January 21, the Loan Fund’s Director of Child Care Programs, Hope Campbell, testified before the Vermont Blue Ribbon Commission on Financing High Quality, Affordable Child Care on behalf of the child care advocacy group Let’s Grow Kids.Read More
The Vermont Community Loan Fund and longtime partner the Champlain Housing Trust collaborated on two affordable housing projects in the fourth quarter of 2015, helping create and preserve 186 Vermont homes to remain affordable in perpetuity..Read More
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