Community ownership
Community-owned assets or organizations are those that are owned and controlled through some representative mechanisms that allow a community to influence their operation or use and to enjoy the benefits arising.
Benefits of ownership in infrastructure projects such as dams and irrigation are claimed to include increased responsiveness to needs of that community and the community valuing the projects more highly.
Community land buyouts
Communities can sometimes buy the land they live on and manage them through locally-run trusts. There are many examples of this in Scotland including Eigg, Assynt and Ulva.
Community-owned enterprises
The examples and perspective in this section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. (November 2013) |
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The New Rules Project of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance a nonprofit corporation has worked to make financing of community owned business less onerous. H.R.2930, the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act [1] Archived 2012-12-15 at the Wayback Machine, would relax securities law requirements making it easier for a community to raise money for community owned enterprises.[4]
See also
Notes
- ^ Cortese, Amy (November 12, 2011). "A Town Creates Its Own Department Store". The New York Times. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
Community ownership seems to resonate in these days of protest.
- ^ "Love a local business? Buy a share: Sometimes it takes a village to fund a company." by Helaine Olen on CNN Money, September 10, 2009
- ^ Mitchell, Stacy (August 24, 2010). "Grassroots Financing is Underwriting a New Crop of Neighborhood Businesses". Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Archived from the original on November 13, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
- ^ Mitchell, Stacy (November 8, 2011). "Crowdfunding Bill Would Allow People to Invest in Local Businesses". Institute for Local Self-Reliance. Archived from the original on November 10, 2011. Retrieved November 14, 2011.
External links and further reading
- Bryden, J and Geisler, C (2007) Land Reform and Community - a ‘new wave’ land reform? Land Use Policy
- Community Owned Business This article by the American Independent Business Alliance explains the distinctions between community-owned and cooperative businesses and indexes many examples of community-owned enterprises in different business sectors.
- "Love a Local Business? Advise it to be careful about selling shares!" blog post by Katovich Law Group
- "Local Stock Exchanges and National Stimulus" by Michael H. Shuman, originally published in the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco's Community Development Investment Review Volume 5, Issue 2, 2009
- "Community Development Investment Review" Volume 5, Issue 2, 2009, foreword by David Erickson, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
- Full review
- Could “Small Is Beautiful” Replace “Too Big to Fail?” Don Shaffer, RSF Social Finance
- Full review
- New move over land reform, BBC News Online, 19 August 2003