News and Press
- Press Release: "Fresh Coast Named as Conservation Innovation Grant Recipient by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack"
- Capital Star: "Advantage and partners get $1 million restaurant innovation business funds"
- KSDK.com (with video): "Tree farms replace vacant land in St. Louis"
- St Louis Public Radio: "St. Louis takes new look at old problem: What to do with vacant land and abandoned buildings"
- Yale Environment 360: "Hard-Pressed Rust Belt Cities Go Green to Aid Urban Revival"
- ABC 12 Flint (with video): "Effort will develop vacant lots into tree farms, green space"
- St Louis Business Journal: "City gives merchant funding company vacant lots to plant trees"
- Youngstown Vindicator: "Youngstown to share in $1M grant to improve land use"
- The Kansas City Star: "Patriot Card Processor Offers Expansion In Missouri & Kansas"
- The Elkhart Truth: "Elkhart poplar tree project to share $1 million national investment aimed at revitalizing vacant urban land"
- CBS WKBN Youngstown (with video): "Development firm invests in revitalizing Youngstown park"
- CBS KMOV St Louis (with video): "Effort will develop vacant lots into tree farms, green space"
- NBC KDSK St Louis (with video): "Vacant lots in 6 cities to become tree farms, ag plots"
- Fox 2 Now St Louis (with video): "Effort to develop vacant St. Louis lots into tree farms, green space"
- Fox 17 Battle Creek (with video): Video and article here
- The Missouri Times: "St Louis, Kansas City named as two of six cities for vacant land revitalization"
- Battle Creek Enquirer: "Battle Creek tree project part of $1 million initiative"
- Associated Press: "Vacant lots in 6 cities to become tree farms, ag plots" (CBS Local), other pick up from Colombia Daily Tribune , WAND-TV , WREX-TV, KTRS , College Station Eagle , Clay Center Dispatch , Argus Press , KMOV , The Republic , Greenfield Daily Reporter , WHIO , WNEM-Saginaw , and more .
- St Louis Post-Dispatch: "New Funders tackle St Louis Business Invesment & Financing Problems"
- Inside Indiana Business: "Elkhart Part of Urban Revitalization Project"
- Battle Creek Enquirer: "Tree Project Could Restore Old Wilson School Site"
- Kellogg School of Management: "Fresh Coast Capital Brings Green to the Rust Belt"
- Kansas City Star: "Land Bank: seeking productive uses for countless 'ugly duckling' properties"
- Michigan Entrepreneur: Fresh Coast named one of 15 Disruptive Startups in Southeast Michigan
- Morgan Stanley: "Encouraging the Future Leaders of Sustainable Finance"
- Founders Nicole Chavas and Laura Brenner Kimes named Kellogg Youn Impact Scholars ; more details here
- Founder Nicole Chavas on CNBC (Video): "Investing in Brownfields"
- Huffington Post: "MBAs Design Sustainable Investment Funds"
- ImpactIQ: "Watch Out, Wall Street: MBAs Design Sustainable Investing Funds"
- Yahoo Finance: "Debt Reduction Plans offered to Small Business in St Louis"
- Morgan Stanley: "Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge Calls for Students to Submit Innovative Investment Vehicles Seeking Both Positive Social or Environmental Impact and Competitive Financial Returns"
- Kellogg School of Management: "Greening Brownfields"
- Quartz: "MBAs will turn Brownfields into Green -- If investors help them out"
- Biofuels Digest: "Brownfield Remediation Project Wins First Place in Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge"