本書作者Woody Tasch堪稱"慢錢之父", 值得以社會創投自誇的若水國際公司諸公參考.
Slow Money Revolution: the global growth of local currencies.
Slow Money is a movement to organize investors and donors to steer new sources of capital to small food enterprises, organic farms, and local food systems.[1] Slow Money takes its name from the Slow Food movement.[2] Slow Money aims to develop the relationship between capital markets and place, including social capital and soil fertility.[3] Slow Money is supporting the grass-roots mobilization through network building, convening, publishing, and incubating intermediary strategies and structures of funding. It is a 501(c)3 non-profit based in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Review
“Woody Tasch has one of those fast minds that always seems to ask the right slow questions. He is on to something: a new vision of deploying capital in a way that might offer a true alternative to faster and faster, bigger and bigger, more and more global.”--Eliot Coleman, farmer and author of The New Organic Grower and Four-Season Harvest
“An essential read for anyone who is concerned about the human condition and our planet.”--Mark Finser, Chair of the Board, RSF Social Finance
“Every once in a while, an idea comes around that you immediately know is not only a good one, but in fact is an absolutely necessary one. Slow Money is such an idea. Money is a powerful thing and whatever we collectively put our money into goes a long way toward creating the world that we live in. So far, those choices have led to many things, including a broken world food system, where nobody knows where their food comes from or what it takes to grow it. To become so divorced from something as essential as our food has had many disastrous consequences. I have great hope that sustainable, locally based food systems will help us all in more ways than we imagine. Slow Money can play a huge role in doing this and Woody’s book is an inspiration to all of us working in sustainable agriculture. I can’t wait to live in a world supported by Slow Money.”--Tom Stearns, President, High Mowing Organic Seeds
“Indispensable reading, to be placed on the same shelf as Berry and Schumacher.”--Gregory Whitehead, Treasurer, The Whitehead Foundation
“An essential read for anyone who is concerned about the human condition and our planet.”--Mark Finser, Chair of the Board, RSF Social Finance
“Every once in a while, an idea comes around that you immediately know is not only a good one, but in fact is an absolutely necessary one. Slow Money is such an idea. Money is a powerful thing and whatever we collectively put our money into goes a long way toward creating the world that we live in. So far, those choices have led to many things, including a broken world food system, where nobody knows where their food comes from or what it takes to grow it. To become so divorced from something as essential as our food has had many disastrous consequences. I have great hope that sustainable, locally based food systems will help us all in more ways than we imagine. Slow Money can play a huge role in doing this and Woody’s book is an inspiration to all of us working in sustainable agriculture. I can’t wait to live in a world supported by Slow Money.”--Tom Stearns, President, High Mowing Organic Seeds
“Indispensable reading, to be placed on the same shelf as Berry and Schumacher.”--Gregory Whitehead, Treasurer, The Whitehead Foundation
About the Author
Woody Tasch is Chairman Emeritus of Investors’ Circle, a
nonprofit network of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations,
and family offices that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of
$130 million to 200 early-stage companies and venture funds dedicated
to sustainability. He is president of the newly formed NGO
Slow Money. Woody was formerly treasurer of the Jessie Smith
Noyes Foundation. He is an experienced venture capital investor
and entrepreneur and has served on numerous for-profit and
nonprofit boards. He was founding chairman of the Community
Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture
investing in economically disadvantaged regions. He lives in
northern New Mexico. For information about Slow Money please
visit www.slowmoneyalliance.org.
nonprofit network of angel investors, venture capitalists, foundations,
and family offices that, since 1992, has facilitated the flow of
$130 million to 200 early-stage companies and venture funds dedicated
to sustainability. He is president of the newly formed NGO
Slow Money. Woody was formerly treasurer of the Jessie Smith
Noyes Foundation. He is an experienced venture capital investor
and entrepreneur and has served on numerous for-profit and
nonprofit boards. He was founding chairman of the Community
Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture
investing in economically disadvantaged regions. He lives in
northern New Mexico. For information about Slow Money please
visit www.slowmoneyalliance.org.
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