The Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
The Vermont Sustainable
Jobs Fund was created by the Vermont Legislature in 1995 to accelerate the
development of Vermont’s
green economy. We do this by providing early stage grant funding, loans, and technical assistance to entrepreneurs,
businesses, farmers, networks and others interested in developing jobs and
markets in the green economy.
The VSJF typically focuses
on 2 or 3 of the market sectors identified by the legislature at any one
time. Our current focus is on increasing
the local production and local use of biofuels, and sustainable forest products
and in strengthening Vermont’s food system.
The products
and services we support drive the green economy by:
- Striving to dramatically
reduce the use of fossil fuels,
- relocalizing production
(including food production, manufacturing, and the sustainable
use of local resources), and
- building economic and
community resilience against challenges such as peak oil and
climate change.
We analyze critical market development needs for these goods and services
and deploy our grants and technical assistance to meet those needs.
