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[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: HOMESTEAD: Trusteeship Trusts: can someone provide more info?
Alan:
It did not come from me and I do not know its source. I hope someone
out there can help us.
Deb
At 02:16 AM 9/27/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Deb Olson and I pulled the information quoted below out of the Homestead
>discussion and used it in our paper on new ideas for spreading ownership, but
>we don't remember the source of it. Can someone who knows about this provide
>us with more information, ideally a citation for something published on the
>idea? Thanks. --Alan Zundel
>
>"Terry Mollner of the Calvert Social Investment Fund proposed Trusteeship
>Trusts, similar in concept to Ackerman and Alstott’s “grubstake” idea,
>but
>not dependent upon the federal government. State and local governments,
>non-profit organizations, banks, philanthropists, professional/civic
>organizations and/or community groups could set up a program for any
>community (however defined); all that would be required would be some seed
>money, including some entity (perhaps state/local government) to guarantee a
>seed loan if necessary. Mollner believed such a program would eventually be
>self-financing with initial recipients paying back their stake at death."
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