tools to help you realise your commons initiative
Units of Trust are investments in local businesses that are neither shares nor direct loans but preferential debentures that are issued in standard denominations so local community members can easily compare offers.
Unlike shares or direct loans, these debentures do not give money as interest, but products and services. Continue reading “Alternative Investment Routes: Units of Trust”
The main reason for the need for larger amounts of money in a commons initiative is to acquire assets – infrastructure. We call the infrastructure capital as it is, unlike labour and inputs, something that is used in the process of providing services but not used up. It will last many years and the cost for this infrastructure can be allocated over time. The financing of this infrastructure can be allocated over time too, being gradually paid back over the life-time of the infrastructure. Continue reading “Finding investment and investors (block 10)”