“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
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
“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
Almost thirty years ago, the Loan Fund's founders had a vision for a more just Vermont, socially and economically. Three decades later, we're innovating, collaborating and working to realize that vision.Read More
On Saturday May 2nd, VCLF Director of Development Jake Ide and VCLF Board Treasurer Karin Chamberlain participated in Your Investments Matter: A Seminar on Personal Divestment in Burlington, VT.Read More
Given Fred and Judi Danforth’s reputation for great energy, innovation and creativity, it might come as a surprise that they’ve just hit the big four-oh: Danforth Pewter is celebrating their 40th anniversary is this year. Of course, 40 hardly constitutes ‘old age’ in a family enterprise that started out, in its first and original iteration, back in 1755..Read More