Getting Started

1. Exploration
Get to know the UFB model on the HOW IT WORKS PAGE and on the COMPARISON CHART PAGE. Take time to study the information on this site. Make note of points that interest you and your group as well as questions that will help you understand how the model can work in your community.

2. Organization
Talk with people you know who may want to be part of bringing UFB to your community.

3. Communication
Write to us with questions, comments, encouragement, and offers to help! (We only have room for another couple thousand people or so on the core team.) Get to know us and allow us to get to know you so we can find the most mutually beneficial way to work together.

4. Check your Alignment
After you've CONTACTED US, explore your group’s strength of alignment with the Core Ideologies for bank and media projects, as well as with an initial draft of a compelling vision for your work. We have developed something we call the Alignment Process™ that will help and that we can send you to work with. In addition to an enthusiastic commitment to your VISION, make sure your team:

a) is deeply aligned regarding Placement, or each person’s place on the team,

b) shares a sense of what Fairness is for your community, and

c) embodies the Culture you will build within your organization so that it enjoys long term success through a sincere practice of efficiency, clear communications, self responsibility and cooperation.

5. Planning
Once you’ve accomplished the above, we can formalize the relationship between your team and our company so that we can provide the full UFB System to you and begin assisting with the planning, financing and building of your bank startup and sustainable project work.

6. Implementation
This is the part where we learn and grow together. As an overview, the following are some of the basic work areas involved in bringing a UFB to your community:

a) Community needs assessment (and master planning as needed)

b) Sustainable project prioritization planning and scheduling

c) Technical project research and development planning

d) The physical location for the bank is chosen and design support comes in to make your bank an amazing – engaging community education / inspiration and cultural experience!

e) Building the bank management, legal, directorship, and client services teams

f) Creating the sustainable projects and business plans for the bank

g) Capitalization of the bank and first round seed capital for projects

h) Acquisition of the bank license

i) Preparation for bank client services and investments staff up and start up

j) Open for business! Monitoring, improving and sustaining all systems

7. Celebration

People ask where we are going to start our "first bank." We answer that starting one bank won't accomplish sustainability fast enough.

So instead we are starting a bank formation SYSTEM so that we can partner with communities to rollout many banks at the same time all across the country.

UFC will provide the system, tools and support to make it possible for many communities as are willing, to start and own a Unified Field Bank to create their own sustainable and social change.

We welcome you to work with us!