Investor Quotes and Stories
CFNE has always had strong support from the faith-based community and socially responsible investment sector. individuals account for nearly one-fourth of the investor mix. increasingly, cooperatives themselves are becoming CFNE investors as well as borrowers.
Coop investors in CFNE include Hunger Mountain Food Co-op, Community Builders, and Onion River Market (City Market).
"Our End is to strengthen and support the co-operative movement by working together. When we relocated seven years ago, we desperately needed support and our co-op neighbors generously provided it. We’re grateful to now be in a position to help other coops. "
Clem Nilan
General Manager
City Market/Onion River Co-op
"As one of the older worker cooperatives in New England, we are delighted to be able to invest in the future of the movement by supporting the great work of the Cooperative Fund of New England."
-all the worker/owners at Community Builders Cooperative
"CFNE took on the hard part of the market…and succeeded in meeting the needs of borrowers while also providing investors with a reasonable rate of interest and a leveraged social impact. That's pretty exciting!"
Amy Domini
"Cooperative [are} an economic model that promotes value not just externally but internally...So we fund
CFNE and they fund the Co-op.”
Corinne Florek, Mercy Partnership FundOne thing bothered Marian Coulter when the Boston-area resident inherited a large sum of money from her grandmother in tthe early 1996.Her inheritance.. was inveted in energy conglomerates and the companies that she "stongly disapproved of.". .. Click here to learn how she solved the problem.
Click here to read about investor Equal Exchange, a former borrower that became an investor.
"It can take a while to undo some of the misconceptions of a traditional financial education that sees these investments as too risky or having too low a rate of return. But our Trustees have become comfortable with certain SRI funds, and tha includes CFNE."
Toni Gold, Social Responsibility Fund/ Episcopal Diocese of ConnecticutClick here to read about long time social investors Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut.
