Sustainable Community Projects

1) Community Development
UFC has met and talked with representatives from dozens of communities across the country, including State Bank Commissioners, Bank Presidents, investment bankers and financial advisors, community leaders, state and local legislators, community planners, council members, farmers, retired people, parents, architects, lawyers, design and sustainabilty educators, producers of major national conferences, school teachers, accountants, investors, social media and marketing consultants, filmmakers, artists, storytellers and visionaries, people working in the service industries, business people and professionals of all kinds, poets, publishers, physicians and healers, authors, philosophers, humanitarians and change makers. From these initial interactions a short list of about two dozen communities have emerged with serious interest in starting banks as early adopters of the system.

Interest from most of these communities is also in projects to be funded through the bank such as organic agricultural farm and business incubator parks, sustainable lifestyle retail and educational centers, renewable energy retrofits, vertical farms, green housing projects, resource recovery parks, new local and regional transportation and communication systems, wellness lifestyle centers and educational support for complementary currency, and more.

At this time communities expressing interest in UFB include:

California: Santa Barbara, Nevada City, Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Sonoma County, South Los Angeles, Ojai

Colorado: Northern Colorado Region - Flagship Center for Banking and Sustainability in Fort Collins

Hawaii: Hamakua, Kona and Kohala/Waimea, Maui County

Indiana: Indianapolis

Iowa: Fairfield

Massachusetts: Great Barrington, Boston

New York: Malta

Oregon: Ashland

Pennsylvania: Kimberton

Virginia: Floyd

Wisconsin: Milwaukee

We invite you to contact us with ideas for projects to create a Unified Field Bank presence in your community.
CONTACT US NOW

2) Technology: Emissions Reduction
UFC has invested financially and through pro-bono technical business assistance in an emissions reduction technology that has been shown, through third party testing, to reduce harmful emissions from internal combustion engines by over 50%. Implementing this technology in large urban centers will enhance the respiratory health of millions of people. This investment will also create cash flow for UFC that can then be used seed formation of UFB community banking initiatives.

3) Quadruple Bottom Line Metrics
Quadruple bottom line commitments from low interest loan commercial borrowers are an important aspect of the Bank’s community partnership effort to educate, inspire and engage businesses in creating local sustainability. And yet there is not an objective system for measuring full spectrum quadruple bottom line accomplishments against a universally applicable set of metrics.

UFC is collaborating with universities, urban planners and the private sector to develop this system of measuring social impacts within a business operation that improve relationships with its employees, vendors and the surrounding community.

Technical Assistance Grants

DEEP Developing Empowerment and Economic Prosperity

CSAfrica: Coalition for a Sustainable Africa
DEEP- For Profit Sustainability Incubation Venture
As of December 2009, ongoing, UFC is providing business planning technical assistance to CSAfrica for the development of their new Cape Town, South Africa based venture DEEP:

DEEP is a sustainable business incubator which focuses on economically viable business solutions to empower the people and communities of Africa with pathways to achieving self-reliant economies.

By providing an opportunity for African entrepreneurs to market and sell their ethical, organic, and ‘beyond fair trade’ products and services directly to the world market DEEP directly supports the people of Africa, while simultaneously generating a funding engine for CSAfrica’s member organizations.

Actively working in 20 countries in Africa, CSAfrica is a consortium of USA based NGO social impact organizations doing diversified grassroots sustainble and self-reliance development projects including AIDS orphan care, eco-village community development, women's and girls empowerment, and research and development of micro-enterprise and appropriate technologies.

Opportunities available to support the development of DEEP. For more information please contact PAULYNN CUE.

WWW.CSAFRICA.ORG/CSALAB.HTML COMING SOON

Also see partnering South Africa based organisation Equi-librum Africa WWW.EPAFRICA.COM which is integral to the strategy and implementation of DEEP.