See Twelve
Great Proposals at the Showcase of Slow Money Northern California on
June 12th
http://slowmoneynocal.org/
Conference
Center at Fort Mason in San Francisco, on Sunday, June 12,
12-5pm
Registration is
now open! (click here)
As a friend of Slow
Money, you and a friend can register at a 50% discount! Use code
SMNCA11LOC
Slow Money
catalyzes investments in the local food system. Examples of investment
proposals include:
*
Strengthen the distribution from small farms into Bay Areas
cities
* Build a
facility for processing grass-fed meat locally
* Convert
and protect regional farmland for organic farmers
* Provide
healthy food alternatives for low income neighborhoods
The finalists have
been selected 55 applicants from the San Francisco Bay and surrounding
areas, based on their commitment to the Slow Money principles,
relevance to the local food shed, economic viability, and
scalability.
Brentwood Ag
Land Trust
and Marin
Agricultural Land Trust
Capay Valley Farm Shop
Farmland LP
Frog Hollow Farm
Growing Youth Project (Alameda Point Collaborative)
Mandela Foods Cooperative
Marin Sun Farms
Pacific Coast Farmers' Market Association
People's Community Market
Planting Justice
Point Reyes
Compost Company
Veritable
Vegetable
On June 12th, these
twelve entrepreneurs and food leaders will present their business
plans before an expected 200+ audience of enlightened investors, food
leaders, and environmentalists, as well as the interested
public:
Featured speakers
include Ari Derfel, Executive Director of the national Slow Money
organization and Melanie Nutter, Director of the Department for the
Environment of the City and County of San Francisco. Network with
active investors, organizational leaders, local food exhibitors, and
visionaries of local food systems.
About Slow
Money
http://www.slowmoney.org/
Thousands of
Americans have begun affirming a new direction for the food system and
the economy. It's called Slow Money.
Invest in building an economy based on principles of
soil fertility, sense of place, care of the commons, and economic,
cultural and biological diversity.
Slow Money provides
a meaningful alternative to our current financial system that has run
amok - trillions of dollars a day flowing through capital markets in
securities that no one fully understands, contributing to systemic
problems of our time.
What does Slow
Money mean?
Investing in
real places, in people and enterprises close to home.
Investing patiently, over time, with a goal of building healthy
enterprises, communities and ecosystems, not just extracting financial
wealth.
Measuring Return on Investment by the tangible world we create around
us and the health of our soil, not just the profit we
make.
Providing balance to
the Fast Money we've been investing to maximize profit at all
costs.