Are you looking for flexible cash for your business without a long and complicated application process?
Click Here to Learn About our Fast Loan ProgramSince 1975, NCIC’s direct and leveraged investments in businesses and communities in
Northeastern Vermont and Northern New Hampshire have totaled more than $540,000,000
representing 2,000 investments and the creation or preservation of more than 20,000 jobs.
How Can NCIC Help?
NCIC works with
businesses and
entrepreneurs, large
and small, helping
them thrive and grow.
Flexible
Financing
NCIC helps to
preserve & create
jobs in the Northeast
Kingdom of Vermont & North
Country of New Hampshire.
Professional Assistance
NCIC brings
together the partners,
money, and professional
expertise projects
need to succeed.
Community Development

Why NCIC?
NCIC offers strategic, adaptive, and creative solutions to overcome economic challenges and meet the changing needs of the people, communities, and employers in our region. The team of professionals at NCIC have years of experience in small business development, community economic development, management, and financing.
Service Area
NCIC was founded to serve businesses and communities in Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom (Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties) and New Hampshire’s North Country (Carroll, Coös, and Grafton Counties). This two-state, six-county area, reaching from the Canadian border south to the middle of New Hampshire is decidedly rural. Fewer than 240,000 people live in an area larger than the entire state of Connecticut with approximately 10% of that population designated as living below the US national poverty standards.
While this area and its economic challenges remain our focus, some of NCIC’s services are now available statewide in both Vermont and New Hampshire. Please contact us to determine if services are available in your area, as program geographic limits are subject to change.

NCICIMPACT
We are pleased to share some of our successes and especially to highlight the businesses and communities NCIC has served.
NCIC is here to help. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
The Notch Climbing Gym
Reach New Heights!
There’s a new climbing gym coming to the Upper Valley! The Notch Climbing Gym will be located in Lebanon, NH with plans to be open in 2022. They will be a full-service modern indoor facility providing 13,000 square feet of modern bouldering, lead, and top rope climbing. NCIC provided assistance with a technical assistance grant for design plans for the gym.
Weeks Medical Center
Reducing our carbon footprint!
NCIC assisted the hospital with grant writing and management of a $180,010 USDA Distance Learning and Tele-medicine grant and a $250,000 Northern Border Regional Commission Grant.
Town of Littleton, New Hampshire
Creative solutions to draw people into the community!
NCIC assisted the Town in applying for and managing a $12,000 Community Development Block Grant which was used to hire a professional architectural firm to complete a programming analysis and preliminary engineering plans for the Cultural Arts Center. NCIC assisted with the grant writing and management of a $5,000 Eversource Grant, a $23,230 USDA Community Facilities Grant and a $20,000 Neil and Louise Tillotson Fund grant to support upgraded sound and lighting systems.


Thrive in VT’s Northeast Kingdom
The perfect balance of work and play!
The Northeast Kingdom is a place where you can enjoy life on and off the clock. Families, young adults, and people of all ages find Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom an excellent place to call home. It takes a lifetime to experience all that the Kingdom has to offer – why wait to start your adventure? It’s time to create a life where you can thrive in the Northeast Kingdom!