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Accelerating Community Capital (part two)… at the BALLE 2012 conference

By Mark | May 20, 2012

OK, following up on what I shared a couple of days ago, here are the rest of the notes I hastily scratched during the BALLE workshop on newly evolving alternative methods for funding businesses. Hopefully it’s of use to those of you in the audience who are thinking about such things. Here’s what the speakers [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Local Business, Locally Owned Business, Uncategorized | Also tagged Accelerating Community Capital Specialists, Alternatives Federal Credit Union, Asheville, Awaken Café, BALLE, biodiesel, Bob Dandrew, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Carol Peppe Hewitt, Carolina Ground, Co-op Power, department store, Direct Public Offerings, Erin Kilmer Neel, Esther Park, farm hub, flour, food hub, general store, Hudson Valley, Ithaca, Leslie Ackerman, Local Economies Project, Local Investing Opportunities Network, Lynn Benander, Marty Gay, Michelle Sandoval, milling, New York, North Carolina, Port Townsend, Quimper Mercantile Company, RSF Social Finance, SCOR, Slow Money, Slow Money NC, Small Company Offering Registration, solar, startup investing | 7 Comments

Accelerating Community Capital (part one)… at the BALLE 2012 conference

By Mark | May 17, 2012

I spent the day in Grand Rapids, participating in a workshop on new models that are evolving for local businesses to raise capital from lenders, investors and donors, at the 10th annual conference of the Business Alliance for Living Local Economies (BALLE). What follow are my rough notes, for those of you who care about [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Uncategorized | Also tagged Awaken Café, BALLE, big box retail, biomimicry, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, Capital Institute, Capitalism, Catskills, Co-op Power, co-ops, Common Market, cool local initiatives, Coop Power, credit unions, crowdfunding, CSA, Cutting Edge Capital, Direct Public Offerings, Don Shaffer, Equal Exchange, Erin Kilmer Neel, financial reform, financing local companies, general store, Harlem, investing, investing in the future, Jenny Kassan, Jobs Act, John Fullerton, JPMorgan Chase, liquidity, Little City Gardens, Local Economies Project, local economy, local investing, Localvesting, Lynn Benander, Marty Gay, Michael Shuman, Michelle Long, micro-financing, Move Your Money Project, move your money to a credit union, Oakland, off-grid, personal finances, Port Townsend, Port Townsend LION, Quimper Mercantile Company, regenerative capitalism, resilience, resiliency, RSF Social Finance, SCOR, SEC, Securities and Exchange Commission, Slow Money, Small Company Offering Registration, South Bronx, startup investing, Sustainability, unaccredited investors, Washington State, what is wealth, White Dog Cafe | 12 Comments

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