Between our gatherings, Slow Money Maine participants have been actively engaged in a variety of ways. Here are mere hints of what’s been happening and I’ll share more in future notes. The descriptions hopefully confirm that there’s room for everyone’s involvement!!!!!!
- Mary Ann Hayes and Barbi Ives will be among Mainers attending the Farm to Plate Network Gathering in Vermont this month
- In September, Amber Lambke, Bill Eldridge, Amanda Beal, Polly Shyka, Troy Haines and Bonnie Rukin participated on panels at Maine Fare, a Maine Farmland Trust event
- Bonnie will be talking about Slow Money Maine at a Pecha Kucha event on November 16th in Union
- Sam May has brought camp leaders together at Chewonki and Blueberry Cove to further plans for farm-to-camp connections
- Bonnie and Lisa Webster, among others, participated on a panel for MANP’s Young Leaders Forum in Hallowell
- A funders’ tour to Aroostook County this month was organized by Andrea Perry, Deb Felder, Eleanor Kinney, Chris Hallweaver, Linzee Weld
- Linzee was on a panel about local investing at the SRI annual conference in Connecticut
- Warren Cook is organizing a meeting of Foundation reps, investors, and economic development leaders partnering with SMM around impact investing in food system enterprises
- John D’Anieri, Linzee and Bonnie have been planning the SMM daylong event for Nov. 15th. Jeremy Bloom has been lending computer skills to develop a new registration system
- Mark Fulford is working with SMM leaders to effectively expand grain-growing opportunities in Maine
- John Sharood and Sam May are moving forward with plans for an ag-focused statewide credit union in Maine
- A new investment club has begun meeting in the midcoast area
