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When we explored Reverse Mortgages and other finance-industry solutions, we discovered the community can lead to a much better approach, where money is a tool, not the goal.
Here are a few of the pioneers piloting this project.
Fund Creator & Investor Social Impact Visionary; Betsy is committed to realizing new options for economic sustainability. She wants to invest her retirement funds aligned with her values.
Army brat, moved every 2 years until I was 21, when I moved into 163 Prospect Street, Providence, RI. I became a we, with six folks who I sitll count as friends. I ended up committed to the world of community, what is it? where is it? How do we create it
Homeowner, Founding Investor & First Borrower.
My name is Alice Green and I'm 79 years old. For more than 20 years, I've lived in a wonderful cohousing condominium community in Berkeley, California.
Fund Creator & Investor Certified Senior Advisor; Raines and Alice opened up Federal programs to help her stay in our community, and together they found a new way, with community at its heart.
Community organizer and co-creator of cohousing neighborhoods, condos with member investment and participation in the creation process. Global EcoVillage Network Ambassador. Audacious Aging contributor, Aging-In-Community specialist. Board member, Sage-in
Hosts the Squirrel Fund website and coordinating outreach around the fund, including tabling at the National Cohousing Conference in Portland, OR in 2019.
Know your neighbors in a green community, and keep your privacy. Have your own kitchen but meals together. Plant the seeds of an ecovillage, tour CA's many.
We invested in the revolving loan fund this group house created as an alternative to a conventional mortgage. Learn more at http://walnutstreetco-op.org/revloan.html
Walnut St. Co-op is a social change oriented, eco-cooperative household in Eugene, Oregon. In September 2000 the first of us moved into a large, rambling house together, seeking to build community. As housemates, that means cooking for each other and eati
PLF made a grant in 2017 that funded some Squirrel Fund start-up costs.
Northern California War Tax Resistance (NCWTR) operates the People’s Life Fund, which in 2017 gave East Bay Cohousing a grant to fund Squirrel Fund development.
We have extensively studied (and invested in) LAEV's loan fund and are looking to it as a model for the Squirrel Fund.
CRSP’s Ecological Revolving Loan Fund (ELF) is a small community loan fund used specifically for acquiring and ecologically retrofitting property in the two block L.A. Eco-Village neighborhood and/or making loans to small green cooperatively oriented busi
A longtime intermediary helping residents preserve farms and communities; potential Squirrel Fund partner or advisor. We've invested in Tryon Farm community in Portland, Oregon, through Equity Trust.
The mission of Equity Trust is to promote equity in the world by changing the way people think about and hold property.
Recipient of the PLF grant and primary sponsor of the Squirrel Fund until a fiscal sponsor is engaged or a nonprofit is created.
Sustainable community is waiting 4 you in the urban East Bay, San Francisco area. Meet people co-creating #cohousing neighborhoods and learn how 2 make your own
Aging in Community hosts the "Help Alice" educational public-interest lobbying campaign legalizing reverse mortgages for cohousing, that led us to create the Squirrel Fund as a grassroots alternative to commercial lenders.
You've probably heard about the concept of "Aging In Place," adapting homes to support people being able to stay there as they age. We think that's great, but not nearly enough. We have witnessed the power of "Aging In Community" making a difference in th
SELC founder/attorney Janelle Orsi and others there provided technical assistance in our early work to legalize Reverse Mortgages for Cohousing, that led to the creation of the Squirrel Fund.
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