Who Are We?

Common Good Bank communities are a project of many partner organizations, led by Society to Benefit Everyone. Each of the partners helps to move the project forward in some substantial way: funding, publicity, oversight, technical assistance and/or active planned participation in the Common Good Bank model at the local level, once the Common Good Bank opens. Partner with us!

Core Partner Organizations

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• Center For The Advancement Of The Steady State Economy advances the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support.
• Class Action raises awareness, facilitates cross-class dialogue, supports cross-class alliances, and works with others to promote economic justice.
• Coop Power is a regional network of local communities creating a multi-class, multi-racial movement for a sustainable and just energy future.
• Earth Action informs and inspires people everywhere to turn their concern, passion and outrage into meaningful action for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
• Empowerment Works! is a catalyst for community-led action, devoted to the genesis of a global partnership for a sustainable world.
• Gasoline Alley Foundation teaches inner city youth and/or underprivileged persons to be successful entrepreneurs while revitalizing inner city neighborhoods, with a concentration on socially responsible/sustainable business practices.
• Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) Investment Bank serves businesses that value social responsibility as a sustainable economic driver, a strategic cornerstone, and a source of competitive advantage.
• New England Small Farm Institute supports sustainable small-scale agriculture and beginning farmers throughout the Northeast.
• Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training, and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.
• Post Oil Solutions advances cooperative, sustainable communities in an age of global climate change and declining fossil fuels.
• Society to Benefit Everyone promotes sensible and compassionate, community-based democratic economics.
• United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. Supports social movements for greater equality.
• (with many more organizations collaborating informally)

Core Project Staff   (Where are we?)

William Spademan, Project Director,      President of Common Good Finance
John White, Director of Strategic Partnerships
Amie Chaudoir, Personnel Director
Sarah Noyes, Program Assistant
Community Division Organizers   (Where are we?)
Marlin Benton	Kansas City, MO
Amie Chaudoir	Eugene, OR
Damon Clinch	Vancouver, WA
Edward Democracy	Portland, ME
Rick Devoe	Nashville, TN
Wendi Dillard	Atlanta, GA
Sherri Driskill	Springfield, MO
Thomas Finnell	Brattleboro, VT
Liz Gilbert	Southern California
Sean Griffin	Kingston, NY
Kerrie L. Harrigan	Eugene, OR
Randall Jones	Salem, OR
Eric Krawczyk	Gunnison, CO
Adam Lake	Floyd, VA
Chris Meyer	Michiana Region
Connie Mink	Vancouver, WA
Scott Morris	Fairfield, IA
Ed Morrison	Gunnison, CO
Sudie Nallo	Charlotte, NC
Jon Pezold	Pittsburgh, PA
George Price	Nashville, TN
Mickey Reilly	Atascadero, CA
Nancy Riebschlaeger	North Quabbin Region, MA
John Root	Amherst, MA
John G. Root, Jr.	Great Barrington, MA
Pathe Sambe	Portland, OR
Radu Seserman	Sussex County, NJ
DonJon Vonavich	Austin, TX
Wendell Wiebe-Powell	Michiana Region
William Zwicker	Eugene, OR

Legal Consultants

Advisors in blue type will serve on the board of directors of the Common Good Bank, along with founding investors and representatives from partner organizations.

* Organization names are for identification purposes only and do not imply formal affiliation or endorsement.