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Small Businesses, Local Food
Ben's Sugar Shack: Maple Entrepreneur Sees Sweet Success

Where are they now? This series of impact stories spotlights Community Loan Fund borrowers who have found long-term success.

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Mark from HFH
Buying a Manufactured Home, Nonprofits, Affordable Housing Development
Community Loan Fund Partners with NH Capital Region Habitat for Humanity on Home Project in Concord

Mark Tierney is on a mission — and manufactured housing is helping him achieve it. 

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Small Businesses
Maximizing Joy as Lilise Designer Resale Expands Consignment Business

Minimum waste, maximum joy. That’s the motto Elyssa Alfieri has used to guide her business since she acquired it nine years ago. You can feel the energy walking through the front door of Lilise Designer Resale on Main Street — from the colorful racks of shirts and dresses to the vintage artwork on the walls. 

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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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Energy Efficiency Solutions, ROC Training and Information, ROC-NH
ROC Resident Saves Money with Energy Solutions

After a record-breaking cold and snowy winter, you might be surprised to find out that Goffstown resident Len Stuart used less propane to heat his home than during the previous winter.

He couldn’t have predicted the weather — but he did plan ahead.

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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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Small Businesses, Local Food
Ben's Sugar Shack: Maple Entrepreneur Sees Sweet Success

Where are they now? This series of impact stories spotlights Community Loan Fund borrowers who have found long-term success.

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Nonprofits
Nonprofit Expands to Help Working Families Facing Housing Insecurity

Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire was ready to expand services but faced a significant obstacle. We were there to help the project across the finish line.

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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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ROC-NH
Improving Communities, One ROC at a Time

When we help resident-owned communities purchase their parks, we’re with them for the long haul. In Tamworth, N.H., that means supporting the Tamworth Pines Cooperative as they secured grant funding to upgrade their water and septic systems.

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

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What does it take for a family farm to survive for five generations?

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Solar and Thermal Heat saved this family farm

2,000

PER YEAR

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They give you way more than just a loan. They coach you.

Ahmad AissaOwner, Aissa Sweets
Cotton Farm Village Cooperative ribboncutting photocourtesy NHCLF 6 14 25

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

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