Archive for October 2018
LEAF Receives Second SBA PRIME Grant
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) recently announced $5 million in awards for its PRIME grant program, which funds training and technical assistance for disadvantaged micro-entrepreneurs.
LEAF is very excited to announce that we were selected as one of the…Read More
LEAF Named Lead Administrator of Massachusetts Food Trust Program
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts recently announced that LEAF, in partnership with The Franklin County CDC, would be the lead CDFI administrator of the Massachusetts Food Trust Program (MFTP), a healthy food fund that has been seeded with $1 million from…Read More
LEAF Supports Worker Co-op, Cooperative Care
LEAF, together with Shared Capital, approved a loan to Cooperative Care (CC) to finance the diversification of CC’s service offerings. CC is the third largest home care cooperative in the United States and currently has 38 employees — 30 of…Read More