The conference in Snowbird, Utah was an atmosphere conducive for networking with some of the most knowledgeable people in the industry. For those of you who couldn't attend, you missed a great presentation by Patch of Land's very own CMO, AdaPia d'Errico. Not to worry however, we've transcribed her speech and uploaded the corresponding PowerPoint slides so you could relive it in the comfort of your own home. We hope you enjoy the following presentation. https://patchofland.com/blog/?p=1586

1. Non-Profit Partnerships with
Crowdfunding for Community
Development:
How crowdfunding, investors, and developers can
contribute to a win-win-win-win solution for
communities
AdaPia d’Errico
SECFC, Snowbird
September 26, 2014

2. IOBY: Crowdfunding Neighborhood
Improvement

3. Examples of Crowdfunding for
Community Improvement in Memphis
• Ioby partnered with Livable Memphis
(nonprofit), launching “Create
Memphis”
• Hampline: innovative bicycle
infrastructure project. Raised $68,000
from public in Oct 2013
• We Are Family
Neighborhood
Center: repairs to
establish a
community
building.

4. Impact Investing with AHP
• American Homeowner Preservation: empowers accredited
investors to pool money online to buy shares of distressed
mortgages, generating impactful social returns
• Success story: AHP sold vacant, neglected property to new
homeowner, helped revitalized blighted community in Kansas
City
• Started as 501(c)3 non-profit in 2008
Before After

5. LeBron James Rehabs His Hometown
• Rehab a home for a
little girl and her
entire community
• Hometown of
Akron, Ohio
• Mariah Riley, sixth-grader
who earned
the house makeover
for her success in
the Wheels for
Education
mentoring program
(Lebron James
Family Foundation)

6. Habitat for Humanity

7. Habitat for Humanity
• Dave McMurty- offered to create a
crowdfunding initiative for Habitat for
Humanity International.
• Ran project in Colombia: build and fund
five homes. Raised $200,000, putting
250 homeless people back into housing.
• Success: Helped change the relationship
between H4H in Colombia and the
government of Colombia
• Since then, H4H has raised over $1
Million through crowdfunding
(Share.habitat platform)

8. Fundrise crowdfunds to save the
Nation’s oldest African-American
Owned Bookstore
• Historical bookstore in San
Francisco: Marcus Books
• Raised $1 million through
Fundrise (out of the $2.6 million
needed which is the property
value)
• Had raised $1.6 million through
Westside Community Services
(local non-profit organization),
then went to Fundrise
• Crowdfunding saved this small
business + two apartments
located overhead

9. Patch of Land’s GA Developer
• Developer: Deborah at Peach
Enterprise LLC
• The firm specializes in working
with the Veterans Affairs to resell
high opportunity properties to
qualified purchasers.
• Region in Georgia near a military
base where potential homeowners
would qualify for the Veteran
Administration (VA) loan program

10. Crowdfunding and Community
Development
• Invest in our communities, not just the property
of our communities
• Focus on rehabilitation for residential homes
• Work with local developers know and love their
neighborhood, as opposed to large corporations
• Philosophy of “having your friends, family,
neighbors” invest in your projects

11. This is the trend. This is the strategy where
everyone wins.