LEAF, the Local Enterprise Assistance Fund, is a nonprofit community development financial institution that has financed the cooperative economy for more than four decades. It provides flexible lending and advisory support to cooperatives nationwide and to underserved small businesses in Massachusetts, with a focus on models that expand shared ownership and deepen community wealth. LEAF is especially known for backing worker, food, and housing cooperatives, as well as other community rooted enterprises that create quality jobs, improve access to essential goods and services, and strengthen long term neighborhood stability. By pairing patient capital with hands on development assistance, LEAF...
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