The I3 Investment Coop works by developing strategic partnerships that align challenges with solutions and provide qualitative and quantitative data for impacting meaningful change.
This collaborative approach maximizes networked impact of investments and solutions while providing initiatives and supporters with essential tools and alliances from communities throughout the world.
Our principle partner is The Citizens Media® – CM – a communications to commerce crowdfunding platform that enables investors, community members, project leaders and innovators to act as one big community.
It uses online conversations to connect with locals on their ground in their own communities: developing understanding of it’s opportunities and challenges. We then work together developing and funding proposals for meeting their real needs leading to the production of tools and services that are open, accessible and scalable.
Tracking data for assessing solution impact, the I3 Investment Cooperative provides its members with expertise and insights into which investments are most effective. This reduces risk associated with investing in new ideas and accelerates change so many want to see.
Innovative Board
Our Board is comprised of forward thinking specialists from around the world, who – while familiar with the pros and cons of 'Business As Usual' – are experienced in I3 concerns, such as Community Development, Alternative Finance and Distributed Technology.
Community Reinvestment
Reinvestment within communities has three times (3x) the economic impact of money that drifts in and out. The I3 Investment Cooperative makes informed investment decisions supporting sustainable initiatives that:
- Build sustainable economic opportunity from within communities;
- Maximize use of resources through transparent, peer to peer sharing of skills, knowledge, resources and solution design.
We're in start-up mode with limited finance. To avoid preparing a costly prospectus, we need to ensure that our investors qualify for certain exemptions. Exemption rules are based on coop law in the potential investors residing location.
Further information can be found in our AGM July 2016: Minutes of Meeting