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Managing
Slow Money Principles
From a Movement to a Reality
While awareness of carbon in the atmosphere increases,
Slow Money taps into something much more immediate—a
sense that by investing in local food and building soil fertility, we can respond in a meaningful way to a world in which
finance has become too abstract and industrial agriculture
has become too centralized, too petrochemical-dependent
and too reliant upon technologies of questionable sustainability.
In March, 2009, when Slow Money had 40 members,
NPR called it a “movement.” In November, when there
were 400 members, ACRES USA called Slow Money a “
revolution.” In December 2009, Business Week reporter John
Tozzi cited Slow Money as “one of the big ideas for 2010.”
The next step is to turn Slow Money from a “big idea” into a
powerful reality within every community. o
Woody Tasch is founder and chairman of Slow Money,
a 501(c) 3 non-profit formed in 2008 to catalyze the
flow of investment capital to small food enterprises
and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to support sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. Woody is chairman Emeritus of
Investors’ Circle, a non-profit network of investors that has facilitated
the flow of $130 million to 200 sustainability-minded, early-stage
companies and venture funds. For most of the 1990s Woody was
treasurer of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, where he pioneered
mission-related investing. He is an experienced venture-capital investor and entrepreneur, he has served on numerous for-profit and
non-profit boards, and was founding chairman of the Community Development Venture Capital Alliance, which supports venture investing
in economically disadvantaged regions. His new book Inquiries into
the Nature of Slow Money is available directly from the publisher,
Chelsea Green. You can reach him at info@slowmoney.org.
