Deploying Capital in PPCs

By Leaf Fund | May 10, 2017
A Persistent Poverty County (PPC) is defined as, “any county that has had 20 percent or more of its population living in poverty over the past 30 years” (CDFI Fund). The large majority of the 384 PPCs are located in…Read More

North Carolina Co-ops in the News!

By Leaf Fund | October 4, 2016
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…Read More