Category: Community Finance Briefings
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Community finance briefing #5: the canvas overview
The community finance canvas consists of a set of community building blocks, each with a set of questions. The purpose of the canvas is to help you design your sustainable community and get to a stage where you can start to produce a financial plan. The canvas can be printed out or copied onto large…
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Community finance briefing #4: the object method
This edition of the briefing takes you through the planning process where you identify key objects, what they deliver and how they integrate with each other as well as the costs and revenues associated with them. The object method is a neat, structured way of putting the high -level design on the table for all of you to discuss and brainstorm around. And as you will…
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Update to Financial Planning Canvas: download now!
canvas_download_2 We are just releasing the latest version of the community finance canvas. This canvas offers a basic structure for groups working to develop their local economy. Start from how the local economy, (or the part of it you are focusing on), could be, not how it is. Working from the middle and outwards, add…
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Community finance briefing #3: from consumer to community
Are there financial models that show communities how to realign their financial dealing to stop money leaking? This newsletter explores the possibilities to set up such arrangements. Download it here … newsletterfp#3_financeB Read other briefings here.
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Community finance briefing #2: defining community
The second edition of the community finance briefing is now out!” These briefings come from previews of the new handbook slated to be published in the Autumn of 2012. In this edition Why community is important The right size The intention The Tribe DOWNLOAD HERE newsletterfp#2_community To sign up to be notified of when the…
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Community finance briefing #1: A permaculture approach to organisation
The first edition of the community finance briefing is now out!” These briefings come from previews of the new handbook slated to be published in the Autumn of 2012. In this edition What founder Bill Mollison says about finance Why a community is not a company What communities should deliver DOWNLOAD HERE newsletterfp#1_mollison