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Food Coops: Prairie Roots Grand Opening, and Loans from SBA

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Congratulations to Prairie Roots Co-op on their summer grand opening (July 5 2017)! Feels like just yesterday when LEAF approved a loan, together with Shared Capital Cooperative, to finance the construction of their 8300 square foot facility. Prairie Roots is…

Deploying Capital in PPCs

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A Persistent Poverty County (PPC) is defined as, “any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years” (CDFI Fund). The large majority of the 384 PPCs are located in…

North Carolina Co-ops in the News!

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We have two different stories this month from the burgeoning cooperative movement in North Carolina. First, our good friends at the Electric Violin Shop were recently featured on UNC-TV in a lovely video, which gives a history of EVS’ conversion to…