Blog Posts
Fundraising Tips from Dan Fireside, Capital Coordinator at Equal Exchange
Equal Exchange is a worker-cooperative that sells Fair Trade coffee, chocolate, and other staples. They created a revolutionary way of raising money from investors. Investors receive non-voting...
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Major Changes to Securities Rules
For those of us who care about moving investment dollars into the businesses we love, March 4, 2020 was like Christmas, New Year’s Eve, and the Fourth of July all wrapped into one. The Securities...
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Fundraising in Uncertain Times
The stock market volatility index reached an all time high on Monday, March 16. The index has increased 500% this year. According to CNN, market activity is being driven by “extreme fear.” After ten...
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Angels of Main Street is one year old and growing fast!
A little over a year ago, Crowdfund Mainstreet CEO Michelle Thimesch and I had a crazy idea—create an angel group for EVERYBODY! The traditional definition of an angel investor is a wealthy person...
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Major changes for maximum impact
Dear Community, This is my last blog post for 2019, and I want to thank you for all your support this year. As we work to change the face of investment in our country, your outpouring of love for...
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Go Ahead, Get Invested! The power of community investing
Local businesses are the touchstone of our communities. And in the last decade, social entrepreneurship and community investing have moved from fringe experiments to mainstream ideas. Together,...
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2019 Social Venture Circle Conference Highlights
I have been attending Social Venture Circle (fka Social Venture Network) conferences for about 10 years, and they never disappoint. These conferences attract business and finance leaders of all ages...
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We are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting for
This year’s CoCap (Community Capital Conference) was our best yet, and I walked away feeling very hopeful. One of the main themes was this: we don’t have to wait for a white knight to move capital...
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Decolonizing Access to Capital
I am so proud to announce that we will be holding our annual CoCap conference this year on October 20-22 in Oakland and San Francisco, and it promises to be the best one yet! The first CoCap...
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Investor Management 101
I advise my clients to be open to having a larger number of smaller investors rather than one or two big ones. Why? There are two reasons: (1) it’s easier to reach your fundraising goal when you...
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