Center for Community Based Enterprise Potential Partners Guide to the Center for Community Based...

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Potential Partners Guide to the

Center for Community Based Enterprise, Inc. (C2BE)

mission, vision, strategy, entities & programs

1/4/08

631 W. Fort St., Detroit, MI 48226631 W. Fort St., Detroit, MI 48226313-331-7821 www.c2be.org313-331-7821 www.c2be.org

www.c2be.org PPT C2BE Guide v.2.5 1/4/08

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How can C2BE help you?• Expand your vision of community economic

development to include Community Based Enterprise (CBE) structures

• Education on successful CBE examples & strategies

• Technical assistance• Network to find partners for developing local

businesses• Information on incubation programs• Help find/ develop new products based on

existing patents


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What is a Community Based Enterprise (CBE)?

A Community Based Enterprise (CBE) is a • locally owned for-profit or non-profit

business• with a sustainable revenue model• intentionally structured to create community

benefits, increased family asset equity, and to be “rooted” in a specific community

• through its ownership structure, business model, or by-laws.


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Presentation Elements• Define CBE

– how it can help you– why we need it here and now

• Describe new Center for Community Based Enterprise (C2BE) strategies, entities, programs & gap it fills

• Explain example - Mondragon Cooperative Corporation (MCC) www.mcc.es– world’s largest industrial cooperative community– began in 1956 in circumstances no better than

those today in Detroit– makes many products familiar to Detroiters


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Economy of S.E. Michigan

• Undergoing radical structural change• Causing major economic dislocation• Many highly skilled people have lost

jobs• Major changes are needed to stem

brain drain• Other regions have recycled talent out

of such dislocations (Northern Italy, Silicon Valley)


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Situation Requires Bold Innovation

• Current efforts have a common focus on providing services & money to traditional private businesses without explicit long term commitments to community

• C2BE & Ingenuity US will provide structure and long term focus to build locally rooted, well distributed, self-sustaining & expanding wealth


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Underutilized Local Resources

• Thousands of highly skilled workers• Sophisticated technology & facilities• Lots of idle intellectual property (IP) in

products (that are close to market stage) at 300 local manufacturing technology companies

• Socially responsible capital seeking deals• Excellent education & training facilities• Fresh water, arable flat land, moderate

climate


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Entrepreneurs are Scarce

• Michigan is 40th of 50 states in entrepreneurial activity (Kauffman Foundation, 2007 New Economy Index)

• People came here to work for big companies that no longer need Detroit

• C2BE will provide entrepreneurship resource entity


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C2BE Mission• Link entrepreneurs with

underutilized local resources to develop locally rooted businesses paying living wages.

• Find, create and support community based enterprises in Detroit.

• Provide best practices information & technical assistance to enable community based enterprises everywhere.


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C2BE Vision

• Make the City of Detroit and its neighborhoods a “national applied innovation lab” for community-based wealth creation strategies

• Using multiple community building strategies, entities & education programs, create a business development & assistance resource focused on locally based businesses

• Create a network to help people find business partners & develop new businesses

• Complement & utilize existing SE Michigan economic revitalization efforts – without duplication


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Unique C2BE Strategy

• Reverse of traditional companies that start from products

• C2BE starts with local people, resources, & rootedness criteria

• Seeks viable products & services to make businesses paying living wages

• Making dinner with what’s in the fridge


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C2BE Programs in Development

• Environmental scan of & developing relationships w/ local CBEs, locally owned businesses, & local organizations interested in CBE

• Development of on-line membership community & working groups

• Select conference for anchor institutions to facilitate creation or growth of local sourcing businesses

• Outreach to and Business plan competition for auto industry ex-pats

• Large conference in Detroit with CBE world leaders presenting best practices


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C2BE Programs in Development continued

• Study trips to established CBEs in Quebec, Halifax, Mondragon & Northern Italy

• Business development resource program• Policy & Advocacy -Fair Exchange Center• MetroDetroit GOING LOCAL – local business

network & think local first campaign• Establishing IUS as a business & innovation

broker• Establishing new businesses from IP acquired

via IPCG• Community Benefit Agreement conference


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C2BE Partner Entities

• C2BE – non-profit 501(c)3• Ingenuity US (IUS) – a C2BE for-profit sub

business & innovation broker • Intellectual Property Commercialization

Group (IPCG) has private investors- likely contractor to C2BE for business development/resource center

• Fair Exchange Center- Policy/Advocacy center for CBE strategies base on KSU/Sloan Capital Ownership Group research

• Metro Detroit GOING LOCAL – network of existing local businesses to promote buying locally –”Think Local First” campaign – based on BALLE experience


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Center for Community Based Center for Community Based EnterpriseEnterprise : : Partners and ProgramsPartners and Programs

LEGEND

IP Commercialization Group

Contractor to C2BE & potential partner in IUS

C2BE Policy &

AdvocacyProgram

“Fair ExchangeCenter”

Governments

seeking, using & sharing

Fair Exchange

practices

Center for Community

Based Enterprise, Inc. (C2BE)

501(c)(3)

Bootstrap Detroit (BsD)

Advisors developing C2BE

“Going Local”local independent business network

convened by C2BE

New & Existing local businesses join network for group benefits & possible

5(c)(6)

C2BE Business

Development & Resource Program

For Profit Public

Not For Profit

C2BE For Profit Subsidiary -

Business Brokerage & Seed Fund –enabling cooperation & locally rooting

assisted businessesIngenuity, US, LLC (IUS)

R&D Member Company A

Member Company C

Member Company B

R&D for Company B, C

etc.

Fair Exchange

Joint Venture Compani

es


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Talent Magnet

• C2BE, Ingenuity US will attract & retain new & existing talent to the region because:

• Ingenuity US/IPCG will be a unique, innovative & exciting business group:

• Creating new products & technologies;• While fostering community &

addressing financial, social & environmental bottom lines.


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Mondragon example – demonstrates that CBE

can:• Generate significant wealth• Enable superior business

competitiveness• Retain higher levels of capital

internally to reinvest for growth• Serve as a model for Ingenuity US


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Mondragon summary

• Starting with nothing but hope & leadership in 1956, as of 2006 there are:– 83,601 people– working in over 200 related cooperatives– assets worth 22.5 billion euros– total annual sales of 13.4 billion euros w/ retained

earnings of 677 million euros– Mondragon Bank administers 12.3 billion euros in

assets– Worker members own 2 billion euros in assets– 861 worker members sit on governing bodies– Cooperative engineering university, schools & social

service system


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Mondragon Cooperative Corporation 2006 Data

• Following slides, taken from data on the MCC website www.mcc.es, shows what can be accomplished:– by hard-working, dedicated people – in circumstances where their children

were leaving home for lack of work– making products similar to those

made locally– paying EU wages & benefits

http://www.mcc.es/


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Most relevant data (in millions of euros)To 31-12-2006Concept 2005 2006 Annual

Variation

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENTMCC Total Assets 22,977 22,550 19.9 MCC Equity 4,226 4,696 11.1MCC Consolidated Results 545 677 24.2Caja Laboral Assets Under Administration 11,036 12,333 11.8Lagun-Aro Funds 3,303 3,626 9.8

Total Sales (Industrial & Distribution) 11,859 13,390 12.9

MCC Total Investment 866 1,243 43.5

EMPLOYMENTMCC workforce at end of year 78,455 83,601 6.6% members over co-operative workforce 81 80 -1.2% women over co-operative workforce members 41.9 41.9 -Industrial Area accident or incident rate 58.3 54 -7.4


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Concept 2005 2006 Annual Variation

PARTICIPATIONWorker-member Share Capital 2,010 2,282 13.5No. of worker-members in Governing Bodies 835 861 3.1% profits distributed to worker-members 57.4 50 -12.3

SOLDARITYResources earmarked for active. of social content 33 34 3.0No. students in MCC Education Centers 7,642 7,429 -2.8

RESPONSIBLE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENTNo. of ISO 14000 certifications in force 42 45 7.1No. of EMAS certifications in force 4 4 -

FUTURE COMMITMENT% Resources earmarked for R&D&i/IndustrialArea Value added 5.5 5.3 -3.6No. of Technology Centers in the MCC 11 12 9.1

Most relevant data - continued


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ProductsINDUSTRIALAgricultural Hardware Components for manufacturing furnitureAluminum Casting Assembly of Aircraft ComponentsAluminum Injection & Machining Assembly & Welding InstallationsAssembly of Automotive Components Automatic Bending Machines & Flexible BendingAutomation Equipment for Doors Casting Moulds & ModulesBody Assemblies AutotransformersBrake Housing and Suspension Arms CNC Punching & Sheet Metal Punching MachinesBicycles Coach ManufacturersCamping Equipment and Tools Grinding Machines and Machine ToolingClinical Material Wind Powered GeneratorsTable Top Crimping Standard High Speed Steel DrillsPlastic Injection Molding Laser Cutting MachinesIndustrial Appliances Sanding Machines & Sanding PlantsFood Preparation Products Fork Lift TrucksMedium Powered Transformers Plastic ExtrusionVertical Transport Systems Pine Boards & PlanksPrefabricated Elements for Construction Casting parts for car industryManufacture & Repair of Lifts & Escalators Clutch HousingsEngineering, Manufacturing & Assembly of Metal Structures Electrical Conductors & Hotplates


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Key Features in Mondragon Success*

• Fr. Arizmendiarrieta’s grand vision (beginning with individual dignity) of the future & his influence over both students & disciples when putting his ideas into practice

• Personal nature of the co-operatives - people are given priority over capital. This results in a high level of worker involvement in the company, through direct participation in both the capital and the management - creating a positive atmosphere of consensus and collaboration.

• A decidedly business-like approach to the co-operative phenomenon, in which company profitability and planned, rigorous and demanding management efficiency are seen as basic principles.

• Re-investment of practically all resources generated.• Ongoing adaptation to the changes taking place in the environment.• Creation of efficient inter-cooperation instruments: in finance, social

welfare, innovation, R&D, co-ordinated job management & situations of crisis.

• Highest level of importance attached to training, both formal education at MCC University Faculties and Professional Schools, Lifelong Training linked to professional refresher courses and advanced courses.

* This material is adapted from the FAQ section of the Mondragon Cooperative Corporation website www.mcc.es.


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C2BE & Ingenuity US Values• Distributed local ownership

• Retention of social capital within productive businesses

• Shared R&D, capital and technical resources over a group of businesses

• Educating workers to expect redundancy and continuous retraining

• Providing a focused workforce development system aiming workers at retraining in specific new skills for specific new businesses

• Respect for diversity & inclusion


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C2BE & Ingenuity US Values (continued)

• Community cohesion through active participation & mutual support

• Sweat equity• Individual dignity• Cooperation• Sharing information within the group• Personal responsibility for quality, service

and & responsiveness to customers• Integrity is never compromised


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C2BE Status 1/4/08

• 60 advisors• Incorporated • 501(c)3 application submitted• Development of program ideas w/ volunteers

beginning work on them• Experts available for consulting• Creation of website http://www.c2be.org • Raised preliminary expense funds from advisors• Seeking institutional partners & foundation

funding

http://www.c2be.org/


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1/1/08 Status of For-Profit Partners

• IPCG has investors & IP licensing contracts within auto industry

• IUS – developed mission, vision & values– is performing pre-feasibility analysis

on several potential businesses– still seeking some members of

business team


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Contact & ContributionsContactDeborah Groban Olson, Executive DirectorCenter for Community Based Enterprise, Inc.Fort Street Presbyterian Church, 631 West Fort Street, Detroit, MI

48226 (313) 331-7821 ofc.,(313) 300-6517 cell, (313) 331-2567 fax,

[email protected]

Tax deductible contributions can be made by sending a check, made out to “InventorEd, Inc.”, with a note that it is“for the benefit of C2BE”, to “Accounting Department,InventorEd, Inc. 1323 W. Cook Rd., Grand Blanc, MI 48439”.

mailto:[email protected]

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