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LEAF Honored, Impact Assets 50 2025

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LEAF is humbled to receive the 2025 Impact Assets Award (IA50), a diverse group of impact fund managers who demonstrate a commitment to generating positive impact: http://bit.ly/IA502025. This recognition comes not to our team alone, but to the entrepreneurs and…

Just Book-ish, a Literary Third Space (Boston, MA)

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LEAF’s Elevate Small Business team’s theory of change is that stable businesses help create financially stable communities. And to be a financially stable business, you need: access to capital, access to advisory services, and access to customers to buy their…

LEAF Board Chair Inducted into the Co-op Hall of Fame (Washington, DC)

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In 1985, Chris Clamp, a recent college graduate and Quaker Volunteer, first encountered LEAF as it was getting started. LEAF ignited her imagination with its vision of a community-funded cooperative non-profit—an alternative way to engage with society. Introduced to the…

Vicente’s Supermarket: A Community Treasure (Brockton, MA)

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Founded in 1994 by Manuel Vicente, Vicente’s Supermarket has grown into a vital part of Brockton, MA and Pawtucket, RI communities, with a fourth store planned for New Bedford in late 2024. This thriving, Cape Verdean immigrant-led business is run…

LEAF’s Labor Day Reflections

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Working Toward a Community-Based Economy. In 1977, as businesses fled Boston in search of lower wages, a visionary group saw an alternative: worker cooperatives. Novel to the US, cooperatives needed more awareness and funding. LEAF was founded to bridge this…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

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Revised November 4, 2024 vberman@leaffund.org Allston, MA – LEAF announced today it has received a grant from The Boston Foundation to help close the wealth gap in Boston. “This grant will allow us to support underserved businesses across the state,”…