New Hampshire New Market Investment Co., LLC
Saint Johnsbury
Northern Community Investment Corporation
St. Johnsbury
Opportunities Credit Union
Burlington
RNA Community Builders, Inc.
Rutland
Rutland West Neighborhood Housing Services, Inc.
West Rutland
Vermont Community Loan Fund, Inc.
Montpelier
Vermont Development Ventures Inc.
Burlington
Vermont Rural Ventures, Inc.
Burlington
The Value-Added Producer Grants program is geared towards helping the Independent Producers of Agricultural Commodities, Agriculture Producer Groups, Farmer and Rancher Cooperatives, and Majority-Controlled Producer-Based Business Ventures in developing techniques that would create marketing opportunities and establish business plans involving viable marketing opportunities that involve the production of bio-based products from agricultural commodities.
In keeping with this mission, the National Institute of Food and Agriculture has recently established the Common Bean Productivity Research for Global Food Security Competitive Grants Program in an attempt to develop approaches and methods that can efficiently address the various challenges facing common bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) production among small holder producers in food insecure countries.
Meticulon, a project of Autism Calgary Association in partnership with the federal government and the Sinneave Family Foundation, operates as a social enterprise that renders high-tech services provided by people with autism, leveraging their natural abilities at requiring attention to detail, repetition, and sequencing.