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Helping to revitalize a neighborhood
Affordable housing is nearly impossible to find on New Hampshire's seacoast. The NH Community Loan Fund is raising grants and donations to help preserve Woodbury Cooperative, a neighborhood in Portsmouth, NH and add much-needed workforce housing.

Infill training series
Empty lots cost resident-owned communities (ROCs) thousands of dollars each year. Why not get going now on a plan to fill yours? Our video series takes you through what needs to be done.

Co-ops are good for communities
A planning director lists the ways cities and towns benefit from the presence of resident-owned manufactured-home communities.

Co-op work is rewarding
A ROC president calls leading a community challenging and satisfying. One key is making sure all members have a voice.

'Boot Camp' for new co-op boards
Board members and leaders of newly converted ROCs learn when they need to know at ROC-NH's "boot camps."

Preserving affordable housing
Why manufactured housing, the most-affordable housing option in many communities, needs to be preserved.

Nowhere to go
The owner of a manufactured-home park in Hooksett, N.H., closed the park and evicted the residents, some of whom were elders and had nowhere else to go.

Co-op members run the business
Cooperative ownership puts residents in charge of a multi-million-dollar business--their community.

Pride, safety, control
Members of manufactured-home cooperatives describe numerous benefits of resident ownership of their communities.

The first 100
The story of New Hampshire's first 100 resident-owned manufactured-home communities (ROCs)

A home you take pride in
Manufactured homes aren't trailers, and they're not mobile. Homeowners take much pride in their houses and their communities

Co-ops add value to communities
A planning director lists the ways cities and towns benefit from the presence of resident-owned manufactured-home communities.

Getting beyond the 'us-them'
Although people living in manufactured housing often deal with stigma, the reality is we all started somewhere.

They'll tell you to live here
When homeowners and residents take pride in their community, public perception changes.

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Saving a business, and a home
Meet Jessi Ryan, one of our Minority-Owned Business Lending borrowers. Our loan helped Jessi continue to build his Newport, N.H. business, In The Forest of Time Vintage Memories, as well as create a home for himself.

Technical assistance helps business owners succeed
Mola Foods owner Jeannette Bryant needed assistance with marketing, sales, and organizing her financial reporting to take her business to the next level. The NH Community Loan Fund's business finance team gave her the training — and the encouragement — she needed.

Revenue-based financing
John Hamilton, formerly of our Vested for Growth program, and Janice St. Onge of the Flexible Capital Fund discuss revenue-based (or royalty) financing as an option for growth businesses. Their April 8, 2020 discussion was hosted by the Northern New England Women's Investor Network.

The capital gap
Our Vested for Growth program serves NH-based businesses whose needs aren't being met by bank loans or equity investments.

New ideas for family business
The owners of Polly's Pancake Parlor in Sugar Hill, N.H., worked with a business coach, then expanded the restaurant's business and hours.

Cooperative fishery nets success
Business coaching gave NH Community Seafood what it needed to expand in its second year.

Recipe for success
Throwback Brewery serves food and beer made with mostly local ingredients on a historic farm in North Hampton.