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Re: HOMESTEAD: Trusteeship Trusts: can someone provide more info?



Why not ask my friend Terry?

I will share a copy of this message with him <tmollner@aol.com>

Regards

Shann

At 07:49 AM 28/9/2001, you wrote:
>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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