Guillaume's blog » wef http://lebleu.org/blog Thoughts on the future of money Tue, 16 Jun 2015 08:19:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 SF neighborhood organizes local version of Davos world economic forum http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/03/11/sf-neighborhood-organizes-local-version-of-davos-economic-forum/ http://lebleu.org/blog/2010/03/11/sf-neighborhood-organizes-local-version-of-davos-economic-forum/#comments Fri, 12 Mar 2010 05:25:04 +0000 http://lebleu.org/blog/?p=346 Continue reading SF neighborhood organizes local version of Davos world economic forum]]> Tonight I was one of a dozen Bernal residents who attended the 2-hour first edition of the Bernal Economic Forum (“BeEF”) at our neighborhood center in the San Francisco neighborhood of Bernal Heights. The theme was: How to strengthen Bernal’s economic livelihood from within?

What we were looking for: economically-sensible solutions to neighborhood funding/financing challenges, both for for-profit and not-for-profit or charitable endeavors.

Each participant brought up different money-related needs and possible solutions. In the end, we identified 5 promising themes, in decreasing order of interest:

  • Local/peer investing
  • Shop local: payment and reward systems
  • Education and awareness
  • Doing more with less (money)
  • Voluntary taxes

As a result, the next Bernal Economic Forum in April will focus on local/peer investing.

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