There is temendous amounts of tax dollars being spent thru the Federal Stimulus package and other public spending but few government entities have committed to spending the money locally to stimulate our economies.

We will discuss an ongoing campaign to convince cities and counties to keep the money locally and explore how to convince the City of Denver and the State of Colorado to buy local and buy American.

Does your business use financing and leasing as a source of capital?

Would you like to recapture the money you give away to banks and other credit grantors for equipment, autos, furniture and fixtures, facilities, even disposables like office supplies?

Discover how to create and control a pool of capital:

~ that lets you BE the "bank"...
~ that lets you control your business's use of credit...
~ that lets you profit from your use of credit instead of giving your money away to lenders.

Successful small businesses have used this strategy and system for over a century.

How to engage your community for the capitalization and success of your business or non-profit organization. Discover multiple solutions to avoid unnecessary debt and investment and still make your projects fly.

Topics include:
• Community Capitalization, Cooperatives and Participatory Investment
• Pre-Sales of Future Production (a.k.a. Deli Dollars)
• Venture Labor and Sweat Equity
• Local Development Funds and Local Stock Issuance possibilities
• Microfinance and Local Currency Funding
• Barter and Trade Exchange

tuggl.com is an exciting new web site that connects people with local businesses that are giving back to their community, allowing everyone to find the local goods and services they need while supporting causes that speak to their heart.

In this session, we will introduce tuggl to attendees, and explain how:

*1)* tuggl makes it possible for consumers to always know what businesses their friends recommend, which ones support causes they care about, and how to raise money for those causes just by using tuggl

Our focus is on scaling-up good ideas and supporting social enterprises run by low and moderate-income persons aged twenty-one to thirty-nine. The session aims to further an already existing process promoted by The Progress Group to support the next generation of Denver-Boulder area social entrepreneurs. These are people from underserved communities, who have the talent and vision, but lack the necessary resources to sustain and scale their ventures. The goal is to connect these innovative people and their good ideas to progressive business leaders and civic organizations with resources.