revitalizing & greening local economies

The CEED Program (Community Energy & Economic Development) is a coordinated system for revitalizing our nation’s economy, one community at a time, by enabling each community to proactively transition to a renewable energy-based economy. It entails the creation of dozens of new green companies in each community with the need for hiring hundreds, if not thousands of new green collar workers, and the injection of millions of dollars of fiscal stimulus into those communities.

1. Proactively creates green businesses
The CEED Program proactively creates thousands of new, community-level green businesses, which stimulate economic renewal and nurture the environment.
•    Those new green businesses need to hire tens of thousands of new employees (skilled, unskilled and professional) in jobs that cannot be exported.
•    Collectively these green businesses will go a long way toward solving our country’s energy crisis, the world’s climate crisis, and provide a solid foundation for renewed economic prosperity at the community level and nationwide.

2. Expands conservation & renewable energy efforts
The CEED Program develops an extensive network of renewable energy sources and greatly expands conservation and efficiency efforts.
•    The CEED Program provides the country with a means to focus its desire to develop a vast array of renewable energy sources to replace fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
•    It directly, proactively and aggressively pushes energy conservation and efficiency down to, and pervasively in, every community, including low-income households.

3. Ensures success with unique support structure & small business expertise
We provide business, technical and financial support structures to ensure those new green businesses succeed, and uniquely leverage the expertise and participation of the local small business community.
•    The CEED Program includes a business, technical and financial support structure for those new small companies that solves most of the key problems normally faced by independently owned businesses — thereby better ensuring their survival, growth and success, along with the fulfillment of a broader strategy of solving our energy, climate and financial crises, one company and one community at a time.
•    It also draws upon the expertise and participation of local small business communities in a concerted and cohesive way. Nobody understands small business like the small business community, and the CEED Program provides them with a means to participate in national objectives.

4. Uses breakthrough funding model
Our breakthrough funding model makes billions of institutional dollars available to those small companies, retains the dollars in communities for a multiplier effect, and reduces the financial burden on government.
•    Our unique funding model allows large, institutional funds to directly invest in these small companies, bringing substantial new dollars into each CEED community, dollars which remain and multiply.
We do this by removing the two key obstacles that normally block institutional investment in small businesses — excessive “due diligence” administrative load in proportion to the size of the investment, and no direct path to liquidity.
The CEED model also encourages local angel investors to invest alongside institutional investors and receive those same benefits. (Contrast with the historic model at ceedprogram.com/conventional.html)
•    Finally, by providing a conduit for institutional capital, the CEED Program greatly reduces the potential financial burden on federal, state and local governments. Thus taxpayers don’t have to foot but a fraction of the entire bill.

For more information, visit CEEDprogram.com.