The Conservation Fund's Natural Capital Investment Fund provides flexible financing to small and emerging natural resource-based businesses in rural, economically distressed communities in the central Appalachian and Southeastern states of West Virginia, North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee.
NCIF’s companies are dedicated to local sourcing and to enriching and celebrating their region. They are rooted in their communities and often run by families and long-time local employees. Nearly all—92 percent—provide their employees with training, helping to build a local workforce with marketable skills and knowledge.
The small loans provided by NCIF help companies create lasting job opportunities based on uniquely local natural and cultural resources. Most of these jobs are created in economically distressed, rural communities that need them most. Despite the economic downturn in 2009, NCIF companies were a net generator of new jobs.
Annually, NCIF measures its economic, environmental and social impacts—triple bottom line—by surveying and interviewing portfolio companies to capture quantitative as well as qualitative results. This report focuses on social and environmental results for NCIF portfolio companies as of December 31, 2009, in the context of NCIF’s overall economic impact.
Download a PDF of the 2009 Impacts Report here.
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Download a PDF of the 2009 Impacts Report here.
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