Stories

LEAF is proud to offer individualized counseling services to small businesses in the Boston area, free of charge. The L-TAP is funded by an agreement with the US Small Business Administration (SBA), an award from Wells Fargo’s Diverse Community Capital…

Cooperation is human nature. Our success as a species is largely due to the ability to cooperate flexibly on large scales. Since cooperation boosts productivity, it is worth examining how we can facilitate it. A 2015 study published in Nature…

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…

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…