I drove up from Golden along the beautiful back roads for a lunch meeting at Greg and Christine's place with others interested in how to make community living affordable. I remember thinking how terrific it felt to be able to be able to share a healthy lunch on Greg and Chris's deck overlooking the rushing Boulder Creek discussing socially responsible issues with 5 1/2 other intelligent individuals on such a glorious spring day. The 1/2 accounted for the 5 year old daughter one of the women brought with her to lunch.
Greg and one of the others at lunch--Wendy created a concept and website for matching potential investors with potential individuals in established communities who need limited financial backing similar to a bank. Check out their website http://www.investingincommunity.net to learn more. Given the volatility of the stock market, this is an interesting investment alternative to consider. It's seems to be a trifecta in that the established community, the individuals the community knows and vouches for and the investor could all potentially benefit from the relationship.
It reminds me of a man I met at Hummingbird--Luis B. who wrote a book called Dare to Care explaining how we as a society could let relationship drive financial decisions rather than the other way around.
Luis said many criticized before even considering his proposition thinking he was advocating socialism or communism. He says that's not what he's about. He gave me an autographed copy of his book that I look forward to reading to learn more.
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