New Impact Offerings, Uniting Communities for Sustainable Change, Next Impact Cherub Club Meeting, Key to Unlocking Your Superpowers for Good and Chapter 3: Regulated Investment Crowdfunding
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Apis Cor and Stowe Street Cafe Featured Among New Impact Offerings - March 18, 2024
Each week, Superpowers for Good shares a list of new impact-related offerings added to FINRA-Registered crowdfunding portals and by broker-dealers. We’ll share four separate lists:
Impact offerings as determined by KingsCrowd reviews.
Offerings with minority founders.
Deals with women founders.
Those with LGBTQ founders.
Uniting Communities for Sustainable Change: The Community Alliance Project
AI Episode Summary
1. Stephen Shaff is the CEO and founder of Community-Vision Solutions, which focuses on rebuilding underserved communities with authentic, community-oriented approaches.
2. Community-Vision Solutions is a culmination of Stephen's 35 years of experience working in social enterprise, activism, and organizing, leveraging a network of resources and solutions for community development.
3. Stephen's work began with a pivot from being a political and social psychology PhD candidate to entering the affordable housing sector, realizing that real estate could be used for social impact.
4. He learned that the community revitalization paradigm was dysfunctional and under-resourced, incapable of combating market forces, leading him to explore social enterprise for greater impact.
5. Another observation was that revitalizing communities can be a multi-billion-dollar opportunity, but it usually misses the involvement of local organizations, something Community-Vision Solutions wants to address.
6. The Community Alliance program aims to integrate various sectors, such as funding sources, activism, political advocacy, and expertise, to foster community-driven change and development.
7. A practical example provided is working with a church that, facing gentrification, can partner with Community-Vision Solutions to develop housing, repair the church, and create sustainable income while serving community needs.
8. Stephen emphasizes that to effectively use crowdfunding, which is a democratic and beneficial tool, communities need to amplify their reach, as small entities often lack the necessary extensive network for success.
9. Stephen identifies his superpower as being a connector and convener, able to bring together various sectors and networks to create collaborative and effective solutions for community development.
10. He encourages others to visit the Community-Vision Solutions website to learn more and engage with their work while emphasizing that building scalable, replicable solutions requires collaboration and shared learning.
Metal-Free Battery, Recycled Plastic, Solar Companies, Affordable Housing Developer Among Companies We're Considering at the Next Impact Cherub Club Meeting
As we gear up for the 1:00 PM Eastern, March 26, 2024, meeting of the Impact Cherub Club, we invite you to join us. The club is an informal gathering to review impact investments everyone is eligible to make, and virtually anyone can afford. We share responsibility for completing basic due diligence before making investments. No one is required to invest.
There are no dues or fees to participate, and I don’t touch the money. When members invest, they do so directly for their own accounts. We benefit from new members only by the fresh perspectives they bring and our growing social impact. Please join us!
Mastering Mindset: The Key to Unlocking Your Superpowers for Good
AI Episode Summary
1. Devin Thorpe introduces Dre Baldwin, a former professional basketball player who is now a thought leader and mentor in discipline and success.
2. Dre shares his background, starting from sitting on the bench in high school, playing Division III college ball, to a nearly decade-long international professional basketball career.
3. Dre explains how he built his name not on the court but through posting videos on YouTube, eventually leading to the creation of his 'Work On Your Game' framework.
4. Dre discusses his four-part framework: mindset, strategy, system, and accountability, emphasizing the importance of each in both sports and business.
5. Mindset is highlighted as the foundation, focusing on mental conditioning to instill repetitive and emotionally powerful thoughts.
6. Strategy revolves around creating a plan of action and a "Reverse Roadmap" to identify the steps to reach desired outcomes.
7. System entails creating processes that are consistent, duplicable, and predictable, such as Starbucks and McDonald's consistency in their products.
8. Accountability is about both holding people responsible for following the process and ensuring the process itself produces the desired results, necessitating adjustments when necessary.
9. Dre stresses the importance of defining clear goals to measure the effectiveness of strategies and processes.
10. Baldwin reveals his superpower to be insight, the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct concepts, which translates into his work with a diverse range of clients, helping them understand and apply universal principles to achieve success.
Chapter 3: Regulated Investment Crowdfunding
You Might Be a Crowdfund Investor Already
There are so many labels people use to describe what I will call Regulated Investment Crowdfunding–the moniker preferred by the Crowdfunding Professional Association–that you may discover as you read this chapter that you’ve done it without realizing it!
People use all of the following names to describe Regulated Investment Crowdfunding:
Crowdfunding
Investment Crowdfunding
Equity Crowdfunding
Community Rounds
Purpose Rounds
Reg CF Offerings
Small Business Bond Offerings
CrowdLending
Upcoming SuperCrowd Event Calendar
If a location is not noted, the events below are virtual.
Impact Cherub Club Meeting hosted by The Super Crowd, Inc., a public benefit corporation, on March 26, 2024, at 1:00 PM Eastern. Each month, the Club meets to review new offerings for investment consideration and to conduct due diligence on previously screened deals. Everyone is welcome to join these free events.
SuperCrowdHour, March 27, 2024 at 1:00 Eastern. Devin Thorpe will explain the three surprising reasons impact investors should seek to make money from impact investing.
Superpowers for Good - Kinect Capital Live Pitch, March 28 at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM Pacific: Four companies currently raising via crowdfunding will pitch their offerings live via the Superpowers for Good streaming television show on e360tv, Linkedin, Facebook and Youtube. Kinect Capital will host the pitch.
SuperCrowd24, April 17-18: This two-day virtual event is our biggest of the year. Don’t miss it. Use the discount code “SuperCrowd” to save 50 percent.
SuperCrowdChicago, June 12, 2024. Save the date! More information is coming soon!
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SuperCrowd Community Event Calendar
Investment Crowdfunding Demystified, Crowdfund Better, April 23 at 2:00 PM ET
Move Your Money Month, April 2024, American Independent Business Alliance
Crowdfunding Professional Association Webinar, May 8, 2:00 PM ET
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