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6 – Solidarity-oriented money: saving money for the others too?
Best Practices to use part of earnings from your savings to fund solidarity-based actions.
Solidarity savings schemes offer you the possibility to invest your money while contributing to enterprise creation for people in hardship situations, or providing housing for families in precarious
situations.
Shared-return funds pay back all or some of investment income to carefully selected organisations. Solidarity funds invest part of their available balances in socially useful projects.
The sums committed to the various forms of solidarity savings still represent only a drop in the ocean of global finance, but they are continuously increasing, and even in a spectacular manner in some
countries.
Barter or local currencies represent another form of solidarity economy, where real working time replaces abstract liquidity.
Joaquim MELO - Founder and Head - Banco Palmas (Brazil)
Joao Joaquim de MELO NETO founded BANCO PALMAS in 1997 to fight against poverty and exclusion.
Joaquim MELO’s bank is located inside Conjunto Palmeira, a shantytown of 30,000 inhabitants in north-east Brazil. The bank offers microcredits and issues its own currency called “Palmas”. It is accepted and acknowledged by the producers, storekeepers and customers from the community. This “social money” circulates exclusively within Conjunto Palmeira, spurring growth.
Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint Joaquim MELO
Emmanuel GAUTIER - Asset Manager FCPR Natixis Solidaire – Natixis Asset Management (France)
Emmanuel Gautier is a portfolio manager, specialist in social finance and head of division of thematic diversification within the department of Global Allocation & ALM Natixis Asset Management.
Committed to the development of socially responsible employee savings since 1999, Emmanuel Gautier manages the employee savings’ SRI fund range "Impact".
Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint Emmanuel GAUTIER
Rodney SCHWARTZ - Founder - Catalyst Fund Management & Research / CEO - ClearlySO (UK)
Rodney’s background is equity research, investment banking and venture capital. Rodney is CEO of ClearlySo (www.clearlyso.com) the world’s first marketplace for social business & enterprise, commerce and investment. In addition, ClearlySo hosts an annual conference for social businesses, sponsors the “ClearlySo in” series on businesses from around the world and maintains the widely-read Social Business Blog. Rodney founded Catalyst in 1997, a venture capital & advisory firm (www.catfund.com) which helps social businesses succeed. Rodney currently lectures at Oxford and is on the Board of AXA Investment Managers, the Ethical Property Company and The Green Thing (Chairman) and is former Chairman of Justgiving and Shelter.
Download his Powerpoint presentation: Powerpoint Rodney SCHWARTZ
Moderator :
François DE WITT - President - Finansol (France)
François de WITT, an expert in financial issues, has been chief editor of various french economics magazines.
He is now the President of FINANSOL, a professional association that brings together savers who want to fund solidarity-based projects, and banks. This association aims at developing solidarity in the savings and finance sector.
The "Label FINANSOL" showcases all social and solidarity funds.
