Recent News

  • John Katovich, Jenny Kassan and Michael Shuman recently participated in a webinar entitled Raising Sustainable Capital: Existing Tools and Potential Public Policies. Click here to hear what they said.
  • John Katovich, Jenny Kassan and Michael Shuman are featured in this article on Spokane Business Women - Local Investing Event Reveals Need for Local Capital
  • Jenny Kassan entered the SOCAP Impact Challenge, answering the question: How will social enterprise unlock the $120 billion market opportunity for individual impact investment? SHE FINISHED IN THE TOP FIVE! Read her article on triplepundit.com.
  • Jenny Kassan was featured in California Lawyer magazine! Read the article here.
  • Jenny Kassan, CEO, Cutting Edge Capital and Jason Gore, Partner, Green Ladder Funding presented “Direct Public Offerings (DPOs) – A revolutionary approach to raising money in challenging times without Angels, VCs, or Banks” to a packed house at the Berkeley HUB.
  • Jenny Kassan was quoted in Grist’s article “Grassroots Financing is Underwriting a New Crop of Neighborhood Businesses.”
  • Jenny spoke at the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies conference, along with Derek Huntington and Thomas Greco, on Foundations for Credit and Finance in a Local Living Economy. For a recording – click here. For more audio recordings of BALLE’s conference click here.
  • “Confused about L3Cs and the Rest? Me Too. Jenny Kassan, Esq. Helps Us Out” – A recent interview by Olivia Khalili for Cause Capitalism.
  • ASBC Webinar “Raising Sustainable Capital: Existing Tools and Potential Public Policies” September 2  with John Katovich, Jenny Kassan and Michael Shuman.
  • John Katovich was recently interviewed by John Tozzi of Business Week for his series  The New Entrepreneur. The post is entitled “What Local Stock Exchanges Might Look Like.” You can read it here.
  • John Katovich and KLG were mentioned in the February 18 issue of Business Week in an article entitled “Consumers Buy into ‘Buy Local’” by Kimberly Weisul.  Read more…
  • K2 was mentioned in Pat McHenry Sullivan’s blog “Spirit Work and Money.” Click here to read the post entitled “Tips, role models and resources for socially responsible, green and new businesses.”

 

  • Jenny Kassan was invited to speak at The Business of Sustainability: Growing Health, Wealth, and Ecological Integrity in Our Food System (January 20) at the Asilomar Conference Center  in Pacific Grove, CA. Click here to see a video of her presentation.

This event launched a movement to promote better capital raising opportunities for small business.  To get involved please join here: http://cuttingedgecap.ning.com/

  • The Cooperative Business as Social Enterprise: Workshop and Mixer (October 26, 2009) – Jenny Kassan joined Megan Amaral and Janelle Orsi at HUB Berkeley at The David Brower Center to provide an overview of the cooperative business model, types of co-ops (from worker co-ops to credit unions), and basic legalities around forming and maintaining them. Click here to see Jenny’s presentation on worker cooperatives.
  • A Festival of Grassroots Economics: Building an Economy for the People and the Planet – Jenny Kassan participated in a panel discussing resources for the development of the grassroots economy at the JASecon Festival in Oakland on September 26th.

Click here to read an in-depth review of the event by Ryan Van Lenning.