LEAF demonstrates effective alternatives to mainstream economic models
LEAF, a nonprofit CDFI founded in 1982, has funded the cooperative economy since our inception. LEAF provides financing and advisory services to cooperatives nationally, and to small businesses in Massachusetts.
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LEAF provides financing to co-ops, small businesses, and organizations embracing shared ownership. It's in our DNA.
365 LEAF Has Leveraged Since 2002 32 million dollars in direct loans apply for a loan
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Healthy Food AFfordable Housing Small Business
"In the real world, it is unreasonable to expect markets to always deliver outcomes that are just, acceptable - or even efficient."
Abhijit Banerjee & Esther Duflo2019 Nobel Prize for Economics winnersMIT Professors
LEAF's flexible financing focuses on small businesses where our work can leverage meaningful impact. And these small businesses build opportunities for shared ownership.
Electric Violin Cooperative
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Elevate Small Business provides funding, technical assistance, and procurement services for small businesses. In turn these businesses increase their access to capital, business knowledge and confidence, and markets for their products and services.
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The Massachusetts Food Trust Program (MFTP) is a healthy food revolving loan fund for businesses producing, promoting, and selling healthy foods grown, caught, or harvested in Massachusetts.
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