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About NCIF
NCIF LogoNCIF provides patient capital to small and emerging natural resource-based businesses. Our investments support business expansion, create employment opportunities, advance sustainable economic development and develop the rural tax base.
NCIF's business clients are located throughout North Carolina, Northeast Tennessee, Southwest Virginia and West Virginia, and have limited access to capital from traditional sources. In addition to providing critical, timely financing, NCIF provides targeted technical assistance to build the non-financial capacity of our clients.
The Natural Capital Investment Fund (NCIF) is certified as both a Community Development Financial Institution and a Community Development Entity.
Latest News
NCIF received a $250,000 grant from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation to launch an Operating Assistance (OA) Fund, a unique endeavor that will provide intensive technical assistance to start-up and early-stage businesses with growth potential in West Virginia counties designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission as distressed and at-risk. These funds will ensure that the borrowers’ critical non-financial needs are addressed, thus enabling them to perform under any debt or equity obligations to NCIF and other participating lenders. Learn more >>

 

Communities in Rural Appalachia and the Southeast To Benefit From Treasury Award
The Treasury allocated $125 million in funding to Coastal Enterprises Inc. as part of the federal New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program. CEI received the highest allocation of the 100 recipients nationwide. The Conservation Fund and NCIF will help CEI deploy funding in NCIF’s four-state service area and throughout the Southeast, targeting projects with significant economic, social and environmental benefits. Learn more >>

 

NCIF's grain bin program makes the front page of Roanoke's Daily Herald
On May 21st, The Daily Herald featured an article about the grain bin program, funded by North Carolina's Agricultural Development and Farmland Preservation Trust Fund and NCIF, developed to help minority and low-wealth farmers. Read the article >>
Read about NCIF's Portfolio Companies in the news »

 

Supporting Communities

SJ Morse

 

NCIF invests in companies - like Carolina Wood Pellets and FLS Energy - that support sustainable forestry and renewable energy.

 

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FLS Energy

Invest in NCIF
Your support will help us continue to find, support and fund entrepreneurs who are demonstrating, that triple-bottom-line businesses can sustain rural communities and their natural resources.

In Profile: NCIF's Rick Larson

As NCIF's North Carolina director, Rick Larson sees a growing opportunity for rural communities to rethink how they survive. "At NCIF, our opportunity is to help local rural businesses provide unique goods and services to the markets around them."

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Spotlight: Meet Curtis Branch

 

NCIF helps Curtis Branch expand his farm and pursue sustainable growing practices through the Farm Storage Facility Project. Read his story »

For Our Bank Partners
Opportunities to Partner with NCIF
NCIF can be part of your bank's strategy to reach and support local small businesses.

 

    • Co-lending with your bank
    • Referring loans to NCIF
    • Structuring growth financing with NCIF
    • Extensive business development services

 

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Natural Capital Quarterly, the newsletter of the Natural Capital Investment Fund, is now available online. Have each future issue delivered to your e-mail inbox.

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A Resource for Rural Businesses
What We Do
NCIF has a “roll up our sleeves” partnership with its portfolio companies, built on our desire to help a company grow.

 

NCIF taps its network for resources to solve business problems and help a business plan ahead. It also functions as a sounding board to review plans, assess strategy, analyze ongoing performance and explore future business opportunities.
What does NCIF invest in?

 

Blue Smoke Salsa NCIF's portfolio companies are an impressive group.

 

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The Conservation Fund
The Conservation FundNatural Capital Investment Fund is affiliated with The Conservation Fund, a national nonprofit organization with a unique dual mission of environmental conservation and economic development.
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