Guillaume's blog » communityservice http://lebleu.org/blog Thoughts on the future of money Tue, 01 May 2012 05:37:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Using CommunityWay to save a local community service in San Francisco http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/20/using-communityway-to-save-a-local-community-service-in-san-francisco/ http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/20/using-communityway-to-save-a-local-community-service-in-san-francisco/#comments Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:47:59 +0000 Guillaume Lebleu http://lebleu.org/blog/2009/01/20/using-communityway-to-save-a-local-community-service-in-san-francisco/ Like many community services, Access SF, San Francisco public access station might close its doors because of a $500K budget cut.

I think Community Way might be a good model for them to raise these $500K. Here is how it would work:

  1. Access SF issues Access SF dollars.we could also call them vouchers or coupons
  2. Access SF negotiates with local businesses to get Access SF dollars accepted as payment for part of what is owned by customers. For instance: a local restaurant would accept 10% payment of the bill in Access SF dollars. Access SF explains that they will advertise Access SF dollars benefit on their channel and Web site, which will attract new business.
  3. Access SF sells Access SF dollars to SF residents on their Web site and at their office. These US dollars are used to fund the $500K.

Local businesses get advertising. Local residents get to support a community service without losing purchasing power. The community service gets its real dollars.

If Access SF sells $50 worth of Access SF dollars on average to 10,000 local residents, they’d get their $500K.

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