Who Are We?

Common Good Bank is a project of Common Good Finance, in cooperation with partner organizations. 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 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.
• Common Good Finance promotes 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
Janet Henderson, Communities Director
Becky Meier, Public Relations Director
John G. Root, Jr., Senior Policy Analyst

Legal Consultants

Ropes & Gray, LLP

Nicolai Law Group, PC

Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC

Champa & Powers, PA

Messick & Weber, PC

Common Good Finance Board*

William Spademan, President
Janet Henderson, Vice President
Carol Lewis, Treasurer	Former CFO, Institute for Community Economics
Karen Ribeiro	Former Vice President, Bank of Western Massachusetts
Catherine Ratté	Principal Planner, Pioneer Valley Planning Commission
Andrew Baker	Former Executive Director, Hilltown Community Development Corporation
Becky Meier
John G. Root, Jr.

Project Advisory Board*

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

Economics Riane Eisler President Center for Partnership Studies Julie Graham (in Memoriam) Feminist Economist University of Massachusetts Amherst Thomas Greco Community Economist, Director Community Information Resource Center Ellen Hodgson Brown Attorney / Author Emily Kawano Executive Director Center for Popular Economics Christopher Lindstrom Special Projects Coordinator E.F. Schumacher Society Tom MacLean (in Memoriam) Economist, Engineer Boeing Chris Martenson Economist The Crash Course Michael Shuman Director of Research and Public Policy Business Alliance for Local Living Economies J.W. Smith Institute for Economic Democracy Banking and Finance Andrew Baker Former Executive Director Hilltown Community Development Corp. Nancy Hoff Owner Ashfield Hardware David Hurwith Former Chairman of the Board FirstCom Bancorp Carol Lewis Former Director of Finance and Administration Community Partners Mike Noble Vice President of Operations and Information Technology Nashua Bank Jeff Rosen Director of Finance and Administration Solidago Foundation Donald J. Sarich CEO Permaculture Credit Union Barbara Snyder C.P.A., Manager Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C.

Business and Social Investment Claire Bateman Investor Bill Baue Co-Founder/Host Sea Change Radio Lynn Benander Business Development Consultant Laura Bessette Owner Ashfield Hardware Alan Eccleston Organizational Effectiveness Consultant Change Work Associates Wendell Kelley Owner Kelley Woodworking Amy Klippenstein Owner Sidehill Farm Paul Lacinski Founder Greenspace Collaborative George Levinger Professor of Psychology, Emeritus University of Massachusetts Amherst Mary Link Fundraising Consultant Andrew Martin President ADDvantaged, Inc. Mike McCusker Founder McCusker's Market Chris Meyer Stewardship Investing Specialist Mennonite Mutual Aid Terry Mollner Executive Director Trusteeship Institute Bill Perlman Former Chair Ashfield, MA Select Board Phil Pless Realtor Upton-Massamont Realtors Chris Rawlings Owner Waterhouse Pools Suzette Snow Cobb Manager Green Fields Market Susan Spademan Real Estate Broker, retired Coldwell Banker Spademan Assocs. John White Carpenter, MBA

Technology and Law Sam Cooley Owner Cooley Associates Manfred Gabriel Former Senior Associate Attorney Latham & Watkins Juliet Jacobson Web Designer Blake Meike Software Engineer Amazon Mike Morton Software Engineer Google, Inc. Nonprofits, Spirit, and Society David Ahlfeld Engineer University of Massachusetts Amherst Marcus Asay President American Banking Financial Institution Consultants Lois Jewel Barber Executive Director EarthAction Sheila Garrett Teacher The Meeting School Gerald Higginbotham Founder Living Learning In Faith Everyday Randy Kehler Promoting Active Nonviolence Prakash Laufer Former Executive Director The Brick House Community Resource Center Robert Lester President Gerencia Ambiental Internacional Peter Letson Mathematician, retired Michael Mazgaonkar Rural Development Consultant Pariavaran Suraksha Samiti David Neil Minister Trinity Church, Shelburne Falls, MA Valerie Palar Permaculture Trainer Blake H. Schmidt Former Personnel Director Common Good Finance Karen Werner Teacher of Sociology Goddard College

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