The Vermont Community Loan Fund is a mission-driven, community-focused alternative lender. We provide loans and other resources to local businesses, community organizations & nonprofits, early care & learning providers and developers of affordable housing who don’t qualify for a loan from a traditional lender. We develop and promote innovative capital-based solutions to issues of poverty, justice and opportunity. We're invested in a stronger, healthier, happier Vermont.
The money we lend is loaned to us by impact investors who want to do more with their money. VCLF investors want a safe, sensible way to invest in Vermont, doing good for Vermonters today and saving for their own tomorrow. In thirty-six years, with over $140 million loaned, we've never failed to repay an investor. Individuals & families, institutions, communities of faith, community organizations: EVERYONE can invest in Vermont through the Vermont Community Loan Fund.
The Vermont Community Loan Fund is a mission-driven, community-focused alternative lender. We provide loans and other resources to local businesses, community organizations & nonprofits, early care & learning providers and developers of affordable housing who don’t qualify for a loan from a traditional lender. We develop and promote innovative capital-based solutions to issues of poverty, justice and opportunity. We're invested in a stronger, healthier, happier Vermont.
The money we lend is loaned to us by impact investors who want to do more with their money. VCLF investors want a safe, sensible way to invest in Vermont, doing good for Vermonters today and saving for their own tomorrow. In thirty-six years, with over $140 million loaned, we've never failed to repay an investor. Individuals & families, institutions, communities of faith, community organizations: EVERYONE can invest in Vermont through the Vermont Community Loan Fund.
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Opportunity is the heart of the Vermont Community Loan Fund. When entrepreneurs are ready to grow, when community leaders have a new idea to better provide their services, they know the Loan Fund has the patient, flexible loan capital and other resources to help them emerge, evolve and become.
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YOU can invest in Vermont, for Vermont. Join our community of impact investors - individuals & families, institutions, communities of faith, community organizations, and more - and do more with your money.
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Your philanthropy helps us to keep our financing affordable and provide critical business development resources and advisory services to our borrowers.Your gift to the Vermont Community Loan Fund is immediately put to work to strengthen Vermont communities.
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May 28th: Read Our 2023 Annual Report "Historic Need, Historic Impacts: The Vermont Community Loan Fund Responds to a Year of Extraordinary Challenges"!
Vermonters came together to meet so many challenges in 2023, and VCLF was no different. We deepened our work with communities across the state, launching new initiatives for racial justice and affordable housing. We weathered historic flooding, celebrated our 35th anniversary and had our biggest lending year ever!
Read MoreMay 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 MoreApril 30th: VCLF is Hiring a Business Advisor
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. An
individual does not need to have had specific business advisory experience to be successful in this position.
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Fundscape, our interactive online map, helps you learn more about the Loan Fund's work throughout Vermont. Learn more about all the good things we're up to in YOUR community!
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