The 4th member of this series, and last. Tomorrow is the big day. Get excited! For the first three posts click 1st, 2nd, 3rd.
| As the fundamental recalibration of our global economy continues, there is an urgent need to develop, example and mainstream an utterly new structure for the essential relationship between banks and their communities.
-Unified Field Bank
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SuperForest!
Today I share with you a new kind of bank. This bank is the Unified Field Bank, who say they form of “sustainable community partnership banking.” Have you ever heard of Café Gratitude or Blend Apparel? If you haven’t check these guys out! And if you have you’ll know exactly what I’m talking about. Both Blend and Café Gratitude use a similar business model. They believe in a community friendly business that is run in a healthy way. It is important for workers to feel comfortable at work. It is a community within a community, so to speak. And through that they reach out to their larger community.
This is exactly what the Unified Field Corporation want to achieve as well. I was fortunate to meet the founder of this company, David Rose, and let me tell you his mission and story are amazing. The bank will offer customers full transparency of their operations. Here are their three main goals:
Sustainability
The Unified Field Bank model applies leveraged fractional reserve bank investment and transparent operational models to accelerate the amount of capital available to build the 9 components for a sustainable community
• Organic Local Food Systems
• Renewable Energy
• Affordable, Green Built Housing
• Water Quality and Availability
• Resource Recovery (Zero Waste)
• Transportation
• Communication
• Education and the Arts
• Wellness
Transparency
Depositors and financial services customers are the foundation of the bank’s ability to apply fractional reserve leveraged financial powers to their potential, yet the community is usually not aware of how the bank investment potential is being applied. UFB’s must invest ONLY in local sustainable infrastructure projects while remaining transparent in all their investment and operating practices.
Education
A significant portion of UFB’s investment banking return is channeled out to the community through financial incentives on savings, bank sponsored business and community outreach programs, technical assistance and learning programs to businesses committing to the quadruple bottom line.
Education will also be available from Unified Field Media in the form of interactive lessons and learning tools, documentaries, podcasts, community generated content, and a knowledgebase to further personal and community sustainability.
Wow right! They even offer a whole page about how their business exactly works. They have everything you could ever want to know about a bank on their site. When I spoke with David he told be that he was changing banking, but just how banking is run. He said banks have such a powerful influence in their communities , but don’t choose to use it. This new bank company will be active in their communities. As they say themselves:
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.
It is truly unbelievable what these guys are setting out to do! And the curious ideas of what they may accomplish and change in their communities. It is super exciting what Unified Field Corporation is doing. And if you have interest in seeing them in community be sure to tell you local leaders! For more info go to website, here.
Have a great day SuperForest. Much Love,
Mathew
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