Orton Family Foundation

Would you loan your favorite bookstore money to keep it from closing? Or pay $1000 for months of café fare…before the café ever opened for business? Would you spend your Saturday painting walls so that a restaurant in your neighborhood could expand its seating? Cash is tight and small business ownership is risky. But Community Supported Enterprises offer one way for communities to offer help and creative financing to get small businesses off the ground or keep them open. Featuring Paul Bruhn, Executive Director of The Preservation Trust of Vermont and Stacey Adamson, Co-founder of the Circle C Market and Teacher at Cody-Kilgore Unified Schools. Recorded on January 17, 2013. Notes available online at bit.ly/VyUvVg.