The Flexible Capital Fund, L3C, a women-led Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) providing patient and flexible growth capital to innovative mission aligned companies in New England’s food, forest products and clean technology sectors, announces that Casey Johnson has joined the...

Fourteen years ago, the Flexible Capital Fund (the “Flex Fund”) set out with a simple but bold belief: that patient, place-based, values-aligned capital could grow strong businesses, resilient communities, and deliver real returns—financial, social, and environmental. Together, we proved it...

Satellite Base Station 400 is the first full-scale, one-bedroom micro-home designed to help address Vermont’s housing crisis—offering a permanent housing solution for workforce residents, as an accessory dwelling, or as a primary residence—affordably priced at $135,000. After surviving the devastating...

Entrepreneur, vegan, and self-proclaimed solutionary, Sarah Speare believes that it can. Sarah Speare, cofounder and CEO of Tootie’s Tempeh in Maine, believes that tempeh is a sleeping giant that can alleviate global hunger, reduce our dependence on animal agriculture, and...

Maine’s Tanbark Molded Fiber is rethinking a century-old product for modern times. As consumers better understand the health and environmental cost of plastic packaging, businesses are increasingly looking for alternatives. A startup in Maine is looking to the abundant Northern...

Being an entrepreneur takes grit, determination, and vision, all of which Michael Zebrowski, founder of Up End This has in spades. Not only has his young business endured the challenges typical of a startup, it has also survived both the...

By Janice St. Onge, President, Flexible Capital Fund, L3C Since 2011, I’ve been running the Flexible Capital Fund, L3C (the Flex Fund), a for-profit, impact investment fund and Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI). The Flex Fund provides flexible, patient risk...

“If you look online, you can find Chinese food, Italian food, and so many ethnic cuisines, but not African,” said Damaris Hall, cofounder of Global Village Foods. “So we thought, ‘why not?’ We will be the pioneers of African cuisine...

LEDdynamics pushes the boundaries of LED technology from its lab in Vermont. Bill McGrath, president and chief technical officer of LEDdynamics, has seen how light can transform lives. “The big story of LED technology in the 1990s was about energy...

“Our mission hasn’t changed,” said Greg Georgaklis, founder of Farmers To You, “but the world has.” Launched in 2009, Farmers To You connects farmers and food producers in Vermont to customers in the Boston area. Similar to a CSA, the...