VCLF Helps Bring VT Salumi to Barre
The Times-Argus reports fine meat producer Vermont Salumi will open a facility in the former Homer Fitts building in downtown Barre..Read More
Recent News
May 8th, 2020: COVID-19 Update from Executive Director Will Belongia
May 8th, 2020: COVID-19 Update from Executive Director Will Belongia Read More
Update: VCLF’s participation in the US SBA Paycheck Protection Program
April 6th, 2020 Update on the Vermont Community Loan Fund's participation in the US Small Business Administration Paycheck Protection Program Read More
Resources for VT Businesses Impacted by COVID-19
Like you, everyone at the Vermont Community Loan Fund is pulling together to adapt to our changing work (and life!) landscape this week. As our world community organizes to fight the spread of COVID-19, the Loan Fund will continue to work with our partners and stakeholders to ensure that we’re doing everything we can to help folks stay healthy and weather this unprecedented situation. Read More
Delayed Building Bright Spaces for Bright Futures Grants Round
Attention! The grant round for Building Bright Spaces for Bright Futures will be delayed this year. .Read More
Building Bright Futures Issues New Early Care & Learning Industry Report
In January, Building Bright Futures (BBF), Vermont’s early childhood state advisory council, issued their latest report, Building Vermont’s Future from the Child Up, outlining the think tank’s recommendations to ensure high-quality, affordable, accessible early care and learning opportunities for all Vermont families. .Read More
VCLF Lends $609,500 in Q4 2018
Learn about recent loans to the Skinny Pancake, Amber Bollman Child Care, Cedar Sawmill of Vermont, NU Chocolat, and West Meadow Farm Bakery..Read More
Seven Days Profiles Loan Fund Borrowers at Stone's Throw Pizza
The plates at the new pizzeria in Fairfax are nine-inch pizza pans that cost 70 cents apiece. The silverware is left over from a Stowe wedding. The base of the table by the front door, a low wooden pedestal, was found in the woods by chef and co-owner Silas Pollitt when he was foraging for mushrooms. It holds a slab of rock that evokes the name of the restaurant: Stone's Throw Pizza..Read More