INVESTMENTS for MAINE and BEYOND

In general: There is a minimum amount, usually $1,000-5,000, one year or longer, from 0% to usually

2-3% but occasionally higher if money is invested for a longer time.

Genesis Community Loan Fund, Brunswick: (https://genesisfund.org/) Loans primarily for

affordable housing and community facilities (food security, childcare and supportive services)

Four Directions Development Corporation (FDDC), Orono: (https://fourdirectionsmaine.org/)

Mission: Serves Maine’s/Wabanaki Territory’s five Native American tribes through education and

investment in affordable housing, tribal business ventures, and native entrepreneurship.

CEI Inc., Brunswick: (https://www.ceimaine.org/) CEI Investment Notes, loans “to make the economy work more equitably.”

Loans and advising to support green companies, food/fisheries, solar energy, child care. Accredited

investments, minimum $5K.

Land in Common, Greene, ME: (https://www.landincommon.org/) Informal loans from Mainers

only, interest or interest-free, for land purchases especially to BIPOC persons in Wabanaki territory.

Cooperative Fund of the Northeast (CFNE), Watertown, MA: (https://cooperativefund.org/) Loans

to cooperatives in New England/NY, including many Maine co-ops (food, worker, etc.).

                 OUTSIDE MAINE BUT ACCESSIBLE TO MAINE INVESTORS

New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Concord, NH: (https://communityloanfund.org/) Loans,

coaching, and guidance especially for affordable/resident-owned housing.

Equity Trust in Amherst, MA: (https://equitytrust.org/) Loans for farm(land) preservation and

different ways of holding land (example: community land trusts).

First Nations Oweesta Corporation, Longmont, CO: (https://www.oweesta.org/) Same goals as

FDDC but for all of Indian Country. “Investing in Native Sovereignty.”

Fonkoze, Washington, DC and Port au Prince, Haiti: (https://fonkoze.org/) “To empower Haitians,

primarily women, with financial and development services to lift their families out of poverty.”

SERRV International, Westminster, MD: (https://www.serrv.org/) Markets and promotes Fair Trade

products from around the world through retail outlets like Ten Thousand Villages.

Working Capital for Community Needs, Madison, WI: (https://www.wccn.org/) WCCN provides

mostly small/micro loans to individuals and cooperatives in six Central/Latin American countries.

Calvert Impact, Bethesda, MD: (https://calvertimpact.org/) Proactively finances solutions to climate change and inequality around the world. Offers community investment notes.

Hope Credit Union, Jackson, MS: (https://www.hopecu.org/) Credit union primarily run by and

serving people of color in MS and beyond. Accepts “transformational” deposits from non-members.

Resources on local investing: Green America, Washington, DC: (https://www.greenamerica.org/finance)

National Coalition on Community Capital (NC3), (https://www.nc3now.org/).

For more information: Larry Dansinger, (207) 262-3706 or larryd@myfairpoint.net