Community Ventures has secured private financing support for equity and the Operational Assistance Program from the following organizations:

	Funder/Partner	Business	Location
EQUITY
	TD Banknorth	Financial Services	Portland ME
	The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation	Foundation	Chicago IL
	Maine Employers Mutual Insurance Company	Insurance	Portland ME
	Coastal Enterprises Inc.	Community and Economic Development	Wiscasset ME
	Sandy River Charitable Foundation	Foundation	Farmington ME
	Vermont Community Foundation	Foundation	Montpelier VT
	Finance Authority of Maine (FAME)	State Economic Development Agency	Augusta ME
CASH OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE GRANT
	New Hampshire Community Development Finance Authority	Economic Development Organization (state)	Concord NH
	Chittenden Bank	Financial Services	Burlington VT
	Surdna Foundation	Foundation	New York NY
	University of Maine	University	Orono ME
	University of Vermont	University	Burlington VT
	Yale School of Management - The Goldman Sachs Foundation Partnership on Nonprofit Ventures	University Partnership	Englewood Cliffs NJ
IN-KIND OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE GRANT
	Brown & Company	Strategic design services	Portsmouth NH
	Channel Swift Group	Business planning services	Boston MA
	Coastal Enterprises Inc.	Employment training services	Wiscasset ME
	Cook Little Rosenblatt and Manson	Attorneys at Law	Manchester NH
	Cope & Associates Inc.	Management consulting	Burlington VT
	ethos Marketing	Marketing services	Portland ME
	Ernst & Young	Accounting	Manchester NH
	Gallagher Flynn & Associates	Accounting	Burlington VT
Headwaters Strategy, LLC	Headwaters Strategy, LLC	Strategic planning	Underhill VT
	Maine Department of Environmental Protection SBTAP	Environmental compliance (state)	Augusta ME
	Pierce Atwood	Attorneys at Law	Portland ME
	SBTDC at University of Southern Maine	Business consulting	Portland ME
	The Tim Sperry Group	Natural food business planning	Wellesley MA
	University of Maine	University	Orono ME
	University of Vermont	University	Burlington VT
	Nixon Peaobdy LLP	Attorneys at Law	Manchester NH
	The Volkman Group LLC	Executive Search Firm	Centennial CO

University Partners

Community Ventures welcomes opportunities to create strategic partnerships with the tri-state area’s undergraduate and graduate universities, colleges, technical and business schools. Relationships may span:

• Academic/case study work on various aspects of Community Ventures’s activities (workforce, environmental, business growth);
• R&D licensing and technology transfer/spinouts;
• Use of students and faculty for business projects;

If you are an educational institution and are interested in exploring a relationship, please contact edu@ceicommunityventures.com