Community Supported Enterprise

Published: April 18, 2013, 9:17 p.m.

b'Would you loan your favorite bookstore money to keep it from closing? Or pay $1000 for months of caf\\xe9 fare\\u2026before the caf\\xe9 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.\\n\\nFeaturing 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.\\n\\nRecorded on January 17, 2013. Notes available online at bit.ly/VyUvVg.'