VCLF Lends $518,000 in 1st Quarter 2016
What do you get when you combine a great but unharvested crop of wild, local apples, with a crop of determined Vermont localvores?.Read More
Recent News
October 18th: VCLF is Hiring an Impact Investment Manager
VCLF is hiring an Impact Investment Manager to focus on impact investor and donor relations, investment and grant management, events, and support for the Board of Directors. This position is VCLF’s main point of contact with our diverse community of impact investors. Read More
October 9th: VCLF is Hiring a Digital Marketing & Communications Manager
The Digital Marketing & Communications Manager is the Loan Fund’s lead brand builder, responsible for managing the organization's digital identity and communications, including web site, social media accounts and online communications. Read More
July 24th: Dig into "Loan to Plate" VCLF's Summer 2024 Edition of NoteWorthy!
Read all about VCLF's restaurant owner/chef borrowers, and find out what they've been cooking up! Read More
VCLF Welcomes New Staff, Bids Farewell to UVM Intern
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
Seasoned Nonprofit Lender Raymond Lanza-Weil Heads VCLF Business Programs
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
VCLF Named 2015 Vermont Mission Lender of the Year by US SBA
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
VCLF's Campbell Testifies Before Vermont Blue Ribbon Commission
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