EcoLogic Finance

News

May 10, 2007
Letter from William Foote regarding EcoLogic Finance's new name: Root Capital.

Press Releases

February 8, 2007
The Lemelson Foundation Announces Support for Sustainable Harvest Specialty Coffee Importers and EcoLogic Finance to Protect Biodiversity in Eastern Tanzania

February 5, 2007
"The Private Sector in Development Initiative" launches new association for fighting subsistence poverty

November 20, 2006
EcoLogic Finance Named Winner of Fast Company / Monitor Group “2007 Social Capitalist Award” for Top Social Entrepreneurs

Listen to the Fast Company Podcast:
Fast Company Magazine, November 16, 2006
William Foote, President of EcoLogic Finance, talks with Keith Hammonds of Fast Company about EcoLogic Finance’s efforts with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters and other companies to support coffee growers and other rural enterprises in developing nations. 13 Minutes.

August 28 , 2006
EcoLogic Finance President Selected for Boston Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” Award

May 25, 2006
Deutsche Bank Invests $300,000 in EcoLogic Finance

April 28, 2006
EcoLogic Finance named one of ten winners of the 2006 World Business Award in support of the Millennium Development Goals

February 13, 2006
EcoLogic Finance and USAID Provide Credit to Ethiopian Coffee Farmers

March 17 , 2005
EcoLogic Finance Awarded $465,000 by Skoll Foundation

September 14, 2004
Starbucks Coffee Company Provides $2.5 million Loan to EcoLogic Finance to Assist Smallholder Coffee Farmers

December 12, 2002
EcoLogic Enterprise Ventures (EEV) Announces $144,000 Credit Facility for Whale-Watching Guides and Small-scale Fishermen in N.W. Mexico

December 20, 2002
Green Mountain Coffee Loans EcoLogic Enterprise Ventures $100,000 to Assist Coffee Growers

March 8, 2001
Conservation International Announces $400,000 Fund for Farmers in Chiapas Fund will Further Protect Nearby Nature Reserve, Benefit Shade Grown Coffee Farmers

Articles About EcoLogic Finance

Sustainable Food Laboratory
"Finance Alliance for Sustainable Trade"

ReportonBusiness.com
June 23, 2007 - "Giving Back"

Fast Company Magazine
December 2006/January 2007- "Work in Progress", Social Capitalist Awards

Boston Business Journal
October 2006 - "40 Under 40 Award"

Fresh Cup Magazine
August 2006 - "Filling the Finance Gap for Coffee Growers"

New York Times
August 4, 2004 - "Berry Sales to U.S. Offer Security to Amazon Farmers"

Miami Herald
March 6, 2002 - "Loan assists coffee growers; Fund brightens a bleak market"

Los Angeles Times
November 11, 2000 - "Loan Program Stirs Hope for Poor Mexican Coffee Growers"

Wall Street Journal
January 28, 2000 - "Sen. Fulbright's Kin Does Well By Doing Good in Latin Climes"

Op-Ed Pieces by President William F. Foote

Miami Herald (.pdf version) (text version)
November 29, 2004 - "A Healing Brew; Community-based Commerce Helps Mend the Broken Nation of Rwanda"

Los Angeles Times
December 29, 2002 - "Swimming Against Tide of Overfishing"

Los Angeles Times
August 5, 2001 - "Mexican Coffee and Asian Politics"

Wall Street Journal
October 9, 1998 - "In Guatemala, Organic Farms Sprout on Civil War Turf"