Invest in local businesses

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Investing where you live: the new and low risk ways to help local businesses business through an easy to replicate model called the Diversified Community Investment Fund. DCIF is lower risk than traditional crowdfunding. Other models will also be explored, including entrepreneurship through acquisition as the Boomers are ready to retire. Instructors: Chris Reisenger, Mountain Biz Works, Michael Shuman, Brian Beckon, Derek Peebles, Jeremiah Robinson

Partners:NC3 the National Coalition for Community Capital [1]

Michael Shuman and the Main Street Journal [2]


AMIBA, the American Independent Business Alliance [3]

Impact Alpha [4]


Stakeholders: Local CDFIs doing small business lending Startup accelerators Community economic development organizations Technical assistance providers

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