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Neighbors Investing in Neighbors Help Local Businesses Like Ben’s Sugar Shack Thrive

Neighbors Investing in Neighbors Help Local Businesses Like Ben’s Sugar Shack Thrive

Powered by a “neighbors-investing-in-neighbors” model with a 100% repayment record, the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund’s impact investors have provided patient capital to support more than $100 million in loans to businesses and nonprofits in New Hampshire.

Investing locally means Main Street businesses can create local jobs, connect neighbors, and keep money circulating close to home.

Learn more about impact investing with the Community Loan Fund.

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INVEST

Learn how Ben Fisk Gained Sweet Success

It makes me feel good to know that the Community Loan Fund is out there looking for the right small businesses to put the right money with — it feels like an extra pat on the back from our neighborhood.

Elyssa AlfieriOwner, Lilise Designer Resale
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Working with Community Loan Fund has really, really helped our business tremendously. And, we're looking forward to great things happening in the nearest future. We have a target. We have a goal. And we’re seeing it happen.

Enoche IwodiCo-founder & CEO, Amazing Hands Healthcare Staffing LLC
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Now that we have this mobile kitchen, which would not have happened without the Community Loan Fund, we're able to actually see that goal become reality. 

Amber PollockCo-Owner, Sunfox Farm
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They give you way more than just a loan. They coach you. It was a relief to have someone to talk to about the business.

Ahmad AissaOwner, Aissa Sweets
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Meaningful Outcomes

From helping working families purchase affordable manufactured homes to strengthening small businesses and family farms, we've invested more than $518 million since 1983 to support the resilience and growth of our neighbors.

$518M

TOTAL LENDING

$412M

AFFORDABLE HOME LOANS

$101M

BUSINESS AND NONPROFIT LOANS

538K

HOURS OF COACHING AND TRAINING BORROWERS

Find Out What Inspired Elyssa Alfieri to Grow Her Small Business

Success Stories

Supporters like you make it possible for us to give people, small business owners, nonprofits, and communities the loans, coaching, and guidance they need to be successful. Here a few of their stories.

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Buying a Manufactured Home
Young Homeowner Achieves His Dream with Welcome Home Loan

Imagine owning a home at 22 years old. Andrew Moore navigated through stigma, a heated housing market, and the confines of the conventional banking system to achieve his goal.

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Small Businesses
Local Entrepreneur Finds “More than a Grant Opportunity” with Community-Driven Economic Empowerment Grant

When Shaunte Whitted learned about the Community Loan Fund’s Community-Driven Economic Empowerment program in 2023, she discovered, in her words, “more than a grant opportunity.”

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Becoming a Resident-Owned Community, ROC-NH
Persistence Pays Off for Residents Purchasing Cotton Farm Village Cooperative

It took 27 years, three attempts, and residents new and old coming together to make it happen.

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Investing, Donating
Couple Values Seeing Their Investment at Work in Their Own Backyard

“It's not only about offering [borrowers] money, but the technical assistance, the networking, the connections — the social capital that the Community Loan Fund brings with it is unparalleled to any other financial institution.” — Sara Varela, donor and investor

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Small Businesses, Local Food, Investing
Nalla Farm: Loan Helps Wilmot Farmer Grow Climate-Smart Farm

A loan from the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund will help the determined new owner of a small but mighty commercial farm in Wilmot become more resilient.

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