A reminder that NC3 is co-hosting SuperCrowd22 next week, September 15 and 16. SuperCrowd22, organized by author Devin Thorpe, is the biggest impact crowdfunding conference of the year where you can learn, connect, and grow with people like you. 

NC3 is now offering an even bigger discount off the ticket price—register with the code NC3friend for $100 off! Members of NC3 are eligible for $75 tickets. If you’re a member, reach out to us here for your discount code. 

Why attend SuperCrowd22? 

Meet people like you. Every day you get up determined to make the world a little better. Wouldn’t it be great to increase your circle of friends who do the same thing!

Learn from experts. The roster of speakers is nearly 100 people long, including the smartest people in the world of impact crowdfunding.

Find entrepreneurs to back. At SuperCrowd22, you’ll hear live pitches from 10 entrepreneurs working to change the world. All have live offerings you can back during the event!

Find investors for your company or nonprofit. You will have networking opportunities in several contexts over the two-day conference, giving you a chance to meet people who are actively investing via crowdfunding.

Discover how to screen investments. Investing via crowdfunding is new for most people, but anyone can do it. Learn how you can pick good companies to back.

Meet portal executives. A dozen FINRA-registered crowdfunding portal executives will participate in the conference, giving you an opportunity to meet and mingle with the folks closest to the action.

Stay current on trends. Even if you are an expert on crowdfunding, there is nothing like attending an event of this sort to get the latest thinking from your peers.

Celebrate diversity. SuperCrowd22 features speakers with a diverse array of experiences, backgrounds and opinions. Attending gives you an opportunity to support diversity in your community.

NC3 is partnering with The Center for Community Ownership to host the Local Investing in Montana Workshop Series. The four-part online workshop led by Michael Shuman, author of Put Your Money Where Your Life Is, will teach participants how we can use our power as local investors to transform economies. 

This workshop series is designed to help you and your community develop practical local investment strategies to boost our local economies. They are a deep dive into topics that will empower attendees to take real local investment action in their communities.

Together we will learn how grassroots investors can invest locally, how businesses can find local capital, and how policymakers can use their tools to facilitate local investment.

The workshop will be Montana-focused, but everyone is welcome to attend! Registration cost is sliding scale. 

Looking for support on your community capital project? 

NC3’s membership base has knowledge and practical skills to share with new investors and organizers that are hoping to build their own community investing initiatives. We aim to connect our members to the general public, allowing new projects to flourish with the professional support of community capital experts within our network. 

To this end, we recently launched the Technical Assistance (TA) Directory. We hope this TA Directory will help activists in the community capital movement by connecting them with high quality support as they develop their community capital project. 

Check out the community capital experts in our TA Directory here. 

After months of advocacy by NC3 Board Chair Chris Miller, lawmakers in the Michigan State Legislature reached an agreement this summer for passing the nation’s first tax credit for local investors. Based on a similar law in New Brunswick, Canada, the Michigan law would provide local investors with a 50% state tax credit on local investments (up to $3,000 annually). 

“We’re not talking about big business. We’re not talking about corporate tax breaks,” explained the bill’s sponsor, Rep. Bronna Kahle. “We’re talking about everyday people having the opportunity that only accredited investors, or venture capitalists, or angel investors would have previously had. We’re talking about small businesses. We’re talking about thriving main streets in your local communities.”

The passage of laws like this around the country could be a huge boon to local investment, and NC3 will continue to share news and lessons from this advocacy process. Read more about the Michigan House Bill 4116 here. 

NC3 members can submit news about their organizational or personal community capital projects via this form, and we will share it in upcoming newsletters. If you’re interested in this benefit, please consider signing up for membership here.