The results are in! Learn what the evaluation of the Farms for the Future disclosed ... 

Ron Phillips, President of CEI, speaks on public television’s “Conversations with Maine.” 

Maine Legislature Passes Model Anti-Predatory Lending Bill.

Review LD 1869 here.

Predatory Mortgages in Maine Recent Trends and the Persistence of Abusive Lending Practices. A joint report issued by Coastal Enterprises, Inc. and the Center for Responsible Lending, 2006.

CEI receives SCED award for CED excellence. 

Announcing the publication, Telling Their Stories: Women Business Owners in Western Maine 

Read about NMTC's $120 million allocation to CEI.

CEI worked with a broad coalition to get the Office of Consumer Credit Regulations to study the impacts of payday lending.   

The Maine Working Waterfront Coalition works to help save commercial fishing access properties.

When Brian Rigney worked on construction jobs during summer vacations while a student at Colby College in Waterville, he saw the inefficiency in the piles of receipts and invoices that accompanied every purchase. As he pursued an MBA, this problem stayed with him, and in 1998 BlueTarp, Inc. was born.

As a growing company, BlueTarp needed capital. CEI Ventures, Inc., one of CEI's two socially responsible venture capital subsidiaries, invested in BlueTarp, because of its potential to generate above average financial returns while meeting social goals, including job creation for low-income people. BlueTarp expects to employ 50 people within the next four years.