Investing As If Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered

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The Age of Hockey Sticks

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CO2

Population NYSETradingVolume

Processing

Speed

VC Returns

“As it circulates the globe with ever-accelerating speed, money is sucking oxygen out of the air, fertility out of the soil and culture out of local communities.”

-- Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money

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“The wealthier a society, the more difficult it becomes to do things that do not have an immediate payback.”

-- E.F. Schumacher

Economy Ecology

Industrial Agrarian Linear Cyclical Markets Places

Globalization Localization

Restorative Economics

Food Philanthropy Investment

PRINCIPLES

TRANSACTIONS

RELATIONSHIPS

The Movement

Within a decade, billions of dollars per year from local investors into small food enterprises that are building the soil of a restorative economy.

From venture capital to nurture capital --entrepreneurial finance that supports soil fertility, sense of place, diversity and nonviolence.

Real food, real farms, real community

Local Network

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Debt & Equity

Vehicles

National Network

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Soil Trust

Strategy• Leverage the power of local & national

networks

• Create innovative for-profit & non-profit financial products and services

• Fundraising & Deal Flow

• PR Campaigns & Media

• Thought leadership & Publishing

• Education & capacity building

• Entrepreneur Showcases

• Santa Fe – 350 people, 34 states and 6 countries. 26 entrepreneurs presented, $260,000 invested flow

• Shelburne Farms – 600 people, 26 entrepreneurs presented, $1.5 million+ invested

National Networks

• Regional gatherings & entrepreneur showcases

• Local investing & fundraising

• Local fund creation

• Food Systems Assessment & local knowledge

• Pilot programs

• Membership outreach

Local Initiatives

• BSW - “Slow” Municipal bonds

• RSF – Investment fund, CDs & Loans

• Calvert – Loans

• Mission Markets – Individual private equity placement

• Portfolio 21 – Equity fund

• Different products for different people

For Profit Investment Products

• If four million Americans contribute $35 per annum to the NRA, will one million Americans contribute $25 per annum to the Soil Trust?

• Donation in - Investment out

• Guarantees, Co-investment, Seed capital, Grants

• 100% MRI Foundation

• A new generation of foundations whose primary purpose is investing

The Soil Trust

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BIOPHILIA

INVISIBLE HAND

MORAL SENTIMENTS

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