VCLF Staff and Board News & Notes
We welcome to Faye Longo, who joined the Loan Fund in November as Coordinator of Child Care Programs. Faye grew up in Vermont, and had been living in New Mexico before returning to the Green Mountains.Read More
Recent News
May 8th: New Tasty Bites Diner Tempts Barre, with Help From VCLF
“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
April 30th: VCLF is Hiring a Business Advisor
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
February 6th: VT Real Estate Co-op Coordinates with VCLF, Supporting New Path to Home Ownership
“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
VCLF Borrower Barton Maple Company's Sweet Synergies
Synergy has characterized Art LaPlante and Mark Royer’s working partnership for decades. The two first met years ago when Art was managing a building materials store in Barton. Mark, a customer, was in timberwork, specializing in specialty lumber. So Mark started buying logs from land owners for me, Art recalls.Read More
VCLF's Busy 2016 Leads to Hundreds of Vermont Jobs, Homes & More
The numbers are in!.Read More
VCLF Investors Invest for Impact
The money we lend comes to us as investments from hundreds of socially responsible individuals and families, faith-based groups, foundations and other nonprofits, corporations and community banks and local, state and federal governments.Read More
VCLF Financing Powers Up Waitsfield's Northern Reliability
When tens of thousands of families and businesses count on you every day to deliver their power - no interruptions and no exceptions - reliability is everything. Hence the name: Northern Reliability, the newest member of the Vermont Community Loan Fund’s (VCLF) family of borrowers.Read More