Financing Cohousing: Live viewing of national webinar plus discussion, drinks December 3, 2007

Come explore with us how to make your commmunity dreams into a reality. Uncover the secrets of how cohousing has become the fastest-growing form of intentional community, by leveraging the system. Learn what banks and potential investors will need to see from you to take you seriously and extend your reach to create a place where you know your neighbors and can support each other for simpler, more sustainable, higher-quality life.

Learn how to get banks, investors, and others to help fund your vision of a multi-unit collaborative community / intentional neighborhood, intergenerational or for retirement. Learn how to carefully select the right partners who "get it" about what you're doing... and how to keep them connected and informed throughout the process so their regulators and bosses won't pull the plug along the way.

Author/Developer/Architect Kathryn McCamant of California's leading cohousing developer, Cohousing Partners and cohousing co-creators around the country will be joining in by conference call and presenting / answering our Q's. This is a national webinar put on by the Cohousing Association of the United States.

Please arrive promptly -- we'll get to know each other and discuss our own visions for community before the call starts right at 5. The presentation will last an hour and be followed by half an hour of Q&A.

You could stay home, all alone and join the national webinar for $85... or save money and join us in a lovely setting surrounded by whiteboards so we can share our ideas before and during the call, with the presentation projected. Refreshments provided (and possibly home-brewed Ginger Ale while supplies last).

No prior experience required... this workshop can be helpful even if you are just at the "idea" stage of creating community or a member of a forming group, or living in community and considering investment in communities based on your experience. We will help you put the information in context and make sure you walk away with a checklist of necessary next steps.

Official Website: http://www.ebcoho.org/