Research Theme B
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- Social financing
- Community bonds – Centre for Social Innovation
- Providing access to loans and financial coaching for the charitable and nonprofit sector: Community Forward Fund
- Tyfu Pobl (Growing People): support for Community Enterprise and Funding
- Crowd sourcing
- MaRS
- Indiegogo – see West End Food Co-op’s Indiegogo crowdfunding campaign (now closed)
- RocketHub
- Kickstarter
- Community capital-building
- businesses, non-profits using using monies that have been allocated for advertising and publicity budgets to sponsor and support community events and projects (i.e. GWFRT and Resilience Festival in Guelph)
- FarmStart looking to create pool of financing outside of traditional sources;
- The Alberta Community and Cooperative Assn. “community reinvestment”
- Co-ops use prospectus as – tool to sell bonds, info on bond drives;
- Slow Food TO is looking at opening a branch of Slow Money
- US – Soil Trust
- Scotland Assembly has set up a land fund
- BC Farm Folk City Folk doing similar work
- Co-op ‘member loans’ generated on every dollar of sale – refundable loan w interest
- CSAs in the UK – invest in CSAs and interest repaid in produce or cheese
- Infrastructure funded by local government (Northumberland ON), regional governments (NY state) and regional development agencies (upper NY state)
- Making use of facilities that have been abandoned by a modernizing economy, transitions in agriculture or state infrastructure usage