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Patient Capital Works. The Flexible Capital Fund, L3C Launches the Next Chapter in Revenue Based Financing.
Fourteen years ago, the Flexible Capital 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.
Vermont's Up End This Launches Innovative Modular Housing Unit
Up End This, a Vermont-based design studio, has launched the Satellite Base Station 400, a one-bedroom micro-home priced at $135,000. This fully plumbed and wired unit spans 440 square feet and addresses Vermont's housing shortage.
Can Tempeh Change the World?
Sarah Speare, cofounder and CEO of Tootie's Tempeh in Maine, believes tempeh can help address global hunger, reduce animal agriculture dependence, and combat climate change.
Can Plants Replace Plastic Packaging?
Maine's Tanbark Molded Fiber is reimagining a century-old product for contemporary needs. As consumers increasingly recognize the environmental and health consequences of plastic packaging, businesses seek sustainable alternatives.
Through Flood and Pandemic, Entrepreneur Michael Zebrowski is Determined to Up End the Affordable Housing Crisis
Being an entrepreneur requires grit, determination, and vision—qualities Michael Zebrowski, founder of Up End This, possesses in abundance. His young business has endured typical startup challenges while also surviving both the COVID-19 pandemic and Vermont's devastating 2023 flooding.
An Impact Fund Investor's Musings: Lessons Learned from a Decade of Investing in Rural Communities
Since 2011, St. Onge has directed the Flexible Capital Fund, an impact-focused CDFI providing flexible, patient risk capital to Vermont and New England companies in food systems, forestry, and climate solutions.