New Hampshire Stories
Amazing Hands: Fulfilling a Dream by Filling a Need
- Concord,
- New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
Our small business C-DEE program helped turn a dream of entrepreneurship into a reality.
Client Spotlight: A Place to Grow
- Brentwood,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
A Place to Grow is a nature-based early learning center in Brentwood, New Hampshire. REDC began working with A Place to Grow and its owner, Jennifer Legere, in 2013, with in-depth business advising. REDC provided financing to assist the growth of her business in 2015, and we have continued to support the business with technical assistance.
Client Spotlight: AMB Iron
- Mont Vernon,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
AMB IRON is a startup business created by ironworker Ruth Bratlie, who is a Structural Steel and Miscellaneous Metals contractor. AMB IRON is based in New Hampshire and serves Southern NH and the Greater Boston Area. Ruth approached REDC for assistance and worked with our advisors to receive business advising, logo development, and website design assistance.
Client Spotlight: Auspicious Brew
- Dover,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
The dedicated entrepreneur behind Auspicious Brew, Helen, is a trained herbalists, seasoned gardener, brewer, and service industry veteran. She had a dream to produce vibrant fermented herbal beverages using their extensive understanding of growing and preparing medicinal and culinary plants stems from formal herbal trainings and ongoing practice as an herbalist in the community.
Client Spotlight: Dunia Beauty & Hair
- Concord,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
Nosanya Frank Dunia came to the U.S. from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2013. In the DRC, he was a barber and owned a hair shop. He was referred to REDC by one of REDC’s first New Americans Loan Fund clients, Foresight Tax Services. Dunia wanted to open a hair supply store in Concord, NH, and was seeking assistance in developing a business plan, projections, and funding.
Client Spotlight: Dunk’s Mushrooms
- Brentwood,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
Dunk's Mushrooms Products & Foraging received financing from REDC in the fall of 2019 for renovation and equipment costs in their commercial kitchen. Dunk's Mushrooms Products & Foraging is located in Brentwood, New Hampshire.
Client Spotlight: Swell Oyster Company
- Hampton Harbor,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corporation
REDC loan client Swell Oyster Company was founded in 2017 by Conor Walsh and Russ Hilliard - two friends who met while earning Aquaculture degrees at the University of Rhode Island. While working as servers at a well-known Seacoast NH oyster restaurant, the two decided farming oysters was the perfect complement to their interests, friendship, and passion for locally grown food.
Derry Oak Village
- Derry,
- New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
We spoke with Carole Mannino and Rachel Hamilton, the President of the Board and the Recording Secretary of the Board, respectively, of the Derry Oak Village Cooperative — the 150th resident-owned community (ROC) that we helped establish. Together they painted a picture of the process of learning that their manufactured-home park was for sale, learning how to establish a cooperative that empowered the park residents to buy Derry Oaks, and how we helped them go from frightened to optimistic.
Exeter River Manufactured Housing Project
- Exeter,
- New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, Partners for the Common Good
Fear of losing their homes prompted the residents to organize the Exeter River Manufactured Housing Project Cooperative (MHP) to buy and renovate their 89-acre park with a loan from Partners and the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund.
Mast Landing Senior Care Housing
- Dover,
- New Hampshire
- Grow America Fund
Mast Landing Senior Care Housing (Mast Landing) is an innovative approach to affordable senior living. This 58-unit building, located in Dover, New Hampshire, provides residents with a beautiful home and unbundled homecare services.
NH New Americans Loan Fund
- Raymond,
- New Hampshire
- Rockingham Economic Development Corp
The Regional Economic Development Center (REDC) announced today that BankProv has recently purchased $12,500 in tax credits to benefit the NH New Americans Loan Fund Tax Credit program.
Robertson Family Adds Creamery to Help Bohanan Farm Stay Productive and Profitable
- Hopkinton,
- New Hampshire
- New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
Heather Bohahan’s great-grandfather established a subsistence farm in the Contoocook River valley in 1911. The next generation began milking, and a dairy farm it remained — with each generation adding cows and land — for the next century.
CDFI Branches in the State
New Hampshire Community Loan Fund
- Headquarters
- , Concord
Resident Ownership Capital dba ROC USA Capital
- Headquarters
- , Concord
Rockingham Economic Development Corp
- Headquarters
- , Raymond
Strafford Economic Development Corporation
- Headquarters
- , Dover