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What if the solution to end poverty was right below our feet?

Crowdfunding For Cities

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An innovative blueprint to revitalize the downtrodden cities of our world in a financially and environmentally sustainable way.

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What if the solution to end poverty was right below our feet?

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The problem: Poverty

One in seven people in America live in poverty.

25 million are either unemployed or underemployed.

Over 600,000 people are homeless.

At the same time, over 14 million properties and lots sit vacant.

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The state of affairs: Instability, volatility

• Automation and outsourcing of jobs

• Schools not teaching in demand skills

• Outdated job search and acquisition tactics

• Lack of entrepreneurship and innovation training

The bottom line: Neither conventional education nor society at large are doing enough to prepare people to thrive in the 21st century.

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The answer?

To create a new type of community that we’ve

never seen before.

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What would happen if..

We built a community that was a cross between two emerging trends of the future:

• An environmentally friendly, sustainable eco-village

• A hands on, world-class education geared towards launching social entrepreneurial ventures that create jobs, solve pressing issues, and change the world

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That’s exactly what we are doing.

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In a place where people can grow an abundance of healthy food, no one needs to go hungry.

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In a place where people can design and construct their own simple shelter, no one needs to go homeless.

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With a little bit of ingenuity, you’d be amazed at what you can comfortably fit into 126 square feet.

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So, here’s the plan:

1. Raise capital.

2. Acquire land and begin development.

3. Hire exceptionally innovative teachers and mentors.

4. Screen initial class of fellows for 2 year program.

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So, here’s the plan (continued):

5. Fellows learn how to:

  Grow their own food.   Build their own shelter.   Create optimal habits for health and productivity.   Develop communication and leadership abilities.   View global issues as opportunities to start ventures

that use creative business models to produce win-win solutions.

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So, here’s the plan (continued):

6. Fellows get connected with mentors and investors in their chosen field.

7. Upon successful completion of 2 year fellowship, each fellow acquires partial ownership of the community they helped to build.

8. Fellows pay a fixed percentage of their income back into the program for 10 years to make it financially sustainable, allowing it to expand into new regions.

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Finally, it’s time to talk finances.

But first, an important question: Do you know him?

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That’s Gordon Gekko, of course; the fictional character from the movie Wall Street.

He is the type of guy who encourages fraud, racketeering, and exploitative maneuvers of every kind. He was best known for coining the phrase, “greed is good.”

Respectfully, we disagree.

We believe in creating fair, win-win scenarios through which every single person involved leaves extremely satisfied; in a much better position than when they began.

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The main objective of this venture is to create empowering livelihoods for people.

As such, this falls into the category of a long-term, social impact investment.

As the network of fellows expands, the value of the investment will increase at a strong pace; but it will take time to develop. Now, let’s talk some numbers.

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The raw numbers: The successful program will utilize a $2.59M total

investment; spread out over five years.

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The annual revenue begins to exceed the annual expenses during year 5, and grows much larger each successive

year.

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The total revenue begins to exceed the total expenses during year 9, and grows much larger each successive

year.

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The $2.59M total investment grows into $7.27M at the end of year 15, effectively an annual 8% ROI.

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This represents a massive opportunity to revitalize the forgotten cities of our world.

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We cannot afford to wait around any longer for someone else to come save us from the very real challenges we face as

a human race.

If we want the world to change, it’s time to do it ourselves.

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Join us.

Together, let’s make history.

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Created by: Jordan Phoenix, Founder of Project Free World

collaboration with The Urban Farming Guys