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	<title>Slow Money Northern California</title>
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	<description>Get invested in your local food system</description>
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		<title>Appropriate Funding Mechanisms for Slow Money Projects</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 18:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Marco Vangelisti) Slow Money projects and businesses are building a restorative economy by improving the livelihood of their communities, by valuing the uniqueness of place and by restoring the fertility of the soil either directly or by supporting activities that do so. The funding challenges that any business faces are augmented by the focus <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/appropriate-funding-mechanisms-for-slow-money-projects'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Comparing Royalty Financing to Debt and Equity financing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:58:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(by Marco Vangelisti) Royalty financing, whereby investors receive a percentage of revenues, relieves the entrepreneur of the implicit pressure early equity investing creates to grow rapidly towards an “exit” and avoids dilution of the original owners. Royalty financing is more appropriate than debt in the early stages of a business since repayments are based on <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/comparing-royalty-financing-to-debt-and-equity-financing'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Assessing Project Impact on Our Regional Food System: 15 Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:01:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Constance Washburn and Kathryn Lyddan: As participants in Slow Money Northern California, weʼve been working to develop a methodology to analyze the impact of potential Slow Money projects on a local food system. Our goal was to create a simple list of questions that an investor could ask to identify the projects that have <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/assessing-project-impact-on-our-regional-food-system'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A new funding structure for Slow Money projects</title>
		<link>http://slowmoneynocal.org/royalty-financing</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marco Vangelisti: Royalty financing, whereby investors receive a percentage of the revenues, relieves the entrepreneur of the implicit pressure early equity investing creates to grow rapidly towards an “exit”. Royalty financing is aligned with the ethos of Slow Money and allows for broader participation on the part of Slow Money investors while allowing the <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/royalty-financing'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money</title>
		<link>http://slowmoneynocal.org/inquiries-into-the-nature-of-slow-money</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a beautiful excerpt from Woody Tasch “Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: investing as if food, farms and fertility mattered”: …Let us dare to imagine an investor who has the sacred passion of an earthworm, slowly making his or her way through the soil of commerce and culture, playing a small, vital role in <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/inquiries-into-the-nature-of-slow-money'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A few thoughts on Slow Money investing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:54:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>arno</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Marco Vangelisti: Slow Money seeks to catalyze investments into the local foodshed and to bring about a new way of dealing with investments, one that is appropriate to place, based on direct relationships and aligned with the values of caring for the commons, sensitivity to the carrying capacity of the planet, and non-violence. Slow <a href='http://slowmoneynocal.org/a-few-thoughts-on-slow-money-investing'>[click to read full article]</a>]]></description>
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