Cohousing-L Mailing List: Earmarked donations (was: "Cohousing friendly" condominiums lenders?)

[Craig Ragland (craigragland]

Raines, this phrase sure jumped out at me:

"join me in making an earmarked donation to Coho/US"

In the past, the Coho/US appeals have basically boiled down to "please
the movement, through us" - fortunately, enough individuals and
communities have stepped up and responded to this rather broad
message. At its last meeting, the Coho/US board approved a targeted
fund-raising project to create a specific, new type of resource.

I'm not about to dilute the impact of the presentation currently being
worked upon for the Conference, but the first invitation to support
this project will be our Fund-raising dinner/auction on June 27 in
Seattle.

All are invited to attend this grand, fund-raising event. Tickets for
just the banquet are available separately from the conference. There's
more info here:

http://www.cohousing.org/2009/saturday

A number of people will be attending just the banquet to join in the fun.

Given how much Cohousing success (13 built communities, with several
more in process) and Cohousing Support Coho/US has received from Puget
Sound communities... it will be a really fun event (and some of the
items in the Auction are just amazing).

Craig

On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Raines Cohen <rc3-coho-L [at] raines.com> 
wrote:
>
> Building up a database of construction/acquisition lenders on projects and
> mortgage lenders on units in cohousing would be a valuable Coho/US research
> project, despite the regional specialization/focus of most lenders; who
> would join me in making an earmarked donation to Coho/US for the development
> of that?

>
> Raines Cohen, Cohousing Coach http://www.CohousingCoach.com/
> Planning for Sustainable Communities
> at Berkeley (CA) Cohousing
>  where Sunday featured not just an Easter brunch out on the lawn, but a
> 5th-night Passover seder filling the sunporch. The perfect complements to
> the Full Moon ceremony marking Mohammed's birthday that we got to attend at
> a Waldorf-inspired Muslim school in the area where we spoke about cohousing
> the evening before, and found enthusiastic parents looking to recreate here
> the sense of community they had in their Afghan villages.
>
> Regional Organizer, East Bay Cohousing http://www.ebcoho.org/
> Doing a cohousing and communities table at Oakland's Earth Expo tomorrow
> (Wed.), 10:30-2: join us!
>
> Co-Author, Audacious Aging
> celebrating the book launch with a reception at the East Bay Cohousing
> clubhouse in downtown Berkeley on Wed., April 29
>
> Boardmember, Bay Area Community Land Trust (BACLT)
> Get your ticket now for our affordable-housing senior coops/cohousing bus
> tour from Berkeley to Davis May 2.
>
> Boardmember, Fellowship for Intentional Community (FIC)
> suggesting that you save the evening for the world premiere of Visions of
> Utopia, part 2, a video featuring cohousing, on Tuesday, evening, May 5,
> with FIC Executive Secretary Laird Schaub live in person
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Neil Planchon <neil [at] swansway.com> wrote:
>>
>> Debby has found a highly qualified buyer to purchase her home and
>> every phase of the transaction is complete with the exception of
>> finding a lender.  Debby has stepped in to assist the buyers and I to
>> support Debby.  Community in action...
>>
>> So, I thought I would start by asking.... If you live in a Cohousing
>> community in California and have a mortgage, Debby would like to know
>> who your lender is.  Or, if you have any experience and information
>> about a lender who is presently making loans to California "Cohousing
>> friendly" condominiums buyers (say that five times quickly!!), she
>> would love to hear about those lenders too.
>>
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