Thanks to all who supported and attended Monadnock Buy Local’s events with Michael Shuman: Cultivating Pollinator Enterprises to Grow Jobs and Prosperity.
“In nature pollinators like bees, butterflies, or bats carry pollen from plant to plant, and they instinctively know that the intermixing of these pollens nourishes the entire ecosystem. Pollinator businesses similarly carry the best elements of one local business to another, thereby fertilizing all local businesses and creating a healthy entrepreneurial ecosystem.”
~ Michael Shuman, The Local Economy Solution
This spring, Monadnock Buy Local is excited to offer a unique opportunity for our region — one that we hope creates much “buzz” and boosts our collective efforts to grow our local economy. Michael Shuman, author and a leading expert on community economics, will visit our region on April 7 – 8 to share the latest buzz in local economy work — pollinator enterprises. He will provide inspiration for developing, launching and amplifying the work of new and existing pollinator enterprises here in the Monadnock Region and beyond.
Pollinator Enterprises…
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From the Local Economy Solution: By Michael Shuman
A “pollinator” is a self-financing enterprise committed to boosting local business. Some pollinators are for-profit businesses, some are nonprofits, but all allow a community to undertake one or more of five key economic development functions — planning, purchasing, people, partnerships and purse — with far greater efficacy and at a substantially lower cost than typical, taxpayer-funded programs. All of the following models deploy business frameworks that ultimately aim to avoid dependency on government grants or charitable contributions: 28 Models of Pollinator Enterprises
What Pollinator Enterprises are active (or in the works) in the Monadnock Region? Please share your knowledge in the comments section below.
Here’s what we’ve gathered so far:
Planning Pollinators
Purchasing Pollinators
People Pollinators
Partnership Pollinators
Purse Pollinators
Monadnock Complete Economy Project 