Small Business Benefit
LEAF Provides Flexible Financing to Cooperatives and Social Purpose Ventures
LEAF’s mission is to promote human and economic development by providing financing and development assistance to community-based and employee-owned businesses that create and save jobs. We structure our financing to the needs and capacity of each business. Investments are structured as secured debt, subordinated debt, lines of credit or equity financing depending on the business need.
Our close working relationship with the ICA Group, a non-profit consultant to worker cooperatives and other social purpose ventures for 25 years, enables us to provide our clients with access to first class business assistance in addition to financing.
Since our creation we have invested more than $4 million and leveraged an additional $51 million for worker cooperatives and community-based businesses.
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