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Charu Singh, Anna Mackay, Joanna Bartholomew, Taidgh McClory
Focusing on the Good: The Merits of
Crowdfunding Equitable Development
Equity crowdfunding has emerged in
recent years as a viable alternative to more
traditional means of raising capital while also
allowing members of the community to have a
stake in the development.
At the " Crowdfunding Equitable Development:
Cutting Deals for Good " session at the
Spring Meeting, Charu Singh, director of portfolio
management at Emergent Capital Partners,
explained how the aim of such crowdfunding,
also known as " collective capital, " is often to
have a social impact such as encouraging community
engagement and buy-in for a specific
project. It can also be used as a tool to generate
wealth primarily for people from excluded
and marginalized communities and groups,
she said.
" Typically, we're talking about equity
tranches dedicated to small-dollar investments
by nonaccredited investors such as community
members, as you've heard about, potentially
project residents, and supporters of a project, "
Singh said.
Democratizing Development
Session panelist Anna Mackay, founder and
principal at Sister City in Portland, Oregon,
said the Fair-Haired Dumbbell project in that
city was the first crowd-invested development
nationwide that was ground-up construction.
(Mackay led the crowdfunding efforts on that
project as director of development at developer
Guerrilla Development.) Nonaccredited investors
from five states contributed.
" In an effort to democratize development
and to bring more equity to people who don't
just need to enjoy a space but potentially could
enjoy the upside of a real estate development
into the deal, we were very focused on bringing
nonaccredited investors into this project. So,
our minimum investment was just $3,000, "
Mackay said.
A quarter of the equity for the project came
from crowd investing, she said. A total of 121
investors were involved, and it took about a
year to raise the funds.
Building on that success, Guerrilla also used
crowdfunding for Jolene's First Cousin, an apartment
community in Portland that was leased to
a homelessness housing nonprofit. The offering
was opened up specifically to people living in
From left: moderator Charu Singh, director of portfolio management at
Emergent Capital Partners; Anna Mackay, founder and principal, Sister
City; Joanna Bartholomew, founder and CEO, O'Hara Development
Partners; and Taidgh McClory, founder and managing principal, T.H.
McClory LLC, discuss new funding models for equitable development.
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