The Community Exchange System CES

Linked with Dominique Plihon – France, and with the Canterbury Community Dollar CCD.

The Community Exchange System CES is an initiative of the South African New Economics Network SANE (see address below).

Caught in the money trap? Break free by joining the Community Exchange System: Conventional money is created as debt by private financial institutions for their own profit-making purposes, not as a social service. This is the root cause of the economic, social and environmental problems that beset us. The amount of debt determines the quantity of money, which has nothing to do with the amount of money we need to live decent lives. CES ‘money’ is created by its users so it can never be in short supply. So long as you can offer something of value you can have from the community goods and services of like value. Join the growing community who have discovered a new way of ‘doing’ money, a healthy money that will create a healthy society, (CES Homepage).

The SANE Community Exchange System (CES) is a community-based, global trading network using a money other than our familiar national ones — an alternative, parallel, local, community or complementary currency system. In short, the CES is a new money system … (what is the CES /about 1/2).

How CES works;
an example of a trade;
WHY WE NEED A NEW MONEY;
The Problems with Conventional Money;
History;
Questions and Answers;
Articles on Money & Complementary Currencies;
NPO Registration; 012-739NPO
Trust Registration; No. IT2904/99
Address: SANE Network, PO Box 23760, 7735 Claremont, South Africa, Tel: +27 (0)21 762 5933, Email.

About 2/2 – How does the SANE Community Exchange System work: There are many similar trading systems around the world, commonly know as Community Exchange Systems, Local Exchange and Trading Systems (LETS), Mutual Credit trading systems or Time Banks.
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The Black Agenda Report

Linked with Glen Ford – USA, and with Obama’s « Race Neutral » Strategy Unravels of its Own Contradictions.

In the fall of 2006, Glen Ford, Bruce Dixon, Margaret Kimberley and Leutisha Stills of CBC Monitor left Black Commentator, which Ford had co-founded and edited since 2002, and launched Black Agenda Report, 11 January 2007 … (about).

Homepage and links (with today Issue for April 30 – May 6, 2008);
American Life;
Black Agenda Blog;
BA radio archive (audios);
Black Misleadership Class;
Congressional and CBC Watch (to change, click on the link in the left column);
Presidential Politics 2008;
Contact: no contact link found.

Black Agenda Report: There`s Nothing Like Us, Anywhere: Black Agenda Report is the only progressive Black journalistic publication that presents a consistent political vision on the burning issues of the day with the explicit purpose of building a movement for social change.
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The NESsT Venture Fund

Promoting venture philanthropy among the venture capital and private equity community in Central and Eastern Europe
(website exist also in espanol)

Linked with Rafael C. Lopa – Philippines.

The NESsT Venture Fund is a philanthropic investment fund providing financial and capacity-building support to a select portfolio of social enterprises owned and operated by civil society organizations in Central Europe and Latin America. All of the social enterprises in the NESsT Venture Fund portfolio are intended to generate revenues to help diversify the financing base and further the mission of the parent nonprofit organization. The NESsT Venture Fund is intended to further the mission of NESsT to address the limitations of the nonprofit capital market at multiple levels: … (full text, goals).

Investment Strategy;
Portfolio;
Business Advisory Network;
Partnerships;
Joining the portfolio;
Investor Circle;
Publications;
Contact.

Problem Statement: NESsT sees fundamental flaws with the current paradigm in which nonprofit, civil society organizations (CSOs) compete for a limited pie of existing philanthropic resources.
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