Key Features and Benefits of the CEED
Program
The following are the key features and benefits of the CEED
Program. Click on each link to see an explanation of each.
- Proactively creates thousands of new green
businesses which greatly stimulate the economic renewal of
the nation and nurtures the environment.
- Develops extensive network of renewable
energy sources and greatly expands conservation and
efficiency efforts.
- Provides business, technical and financial
support structures to ensure those new green businesses
succeed and uniquely leverages the expertise and
participation of the local small business
community.
- Breakthrough funding model makes billions
of institutional dollars available to those small
companies, retains the dollars in communities for a
multiplier effect, and reduces the financial burden on
government.
The Key Features and Benefits Explained
Proactively creates thousands of new
green businesses which greatly stimulate the economic renewal
of the nation and nurtures the environment.
The CEED Program proactively creates thousands of new,
community-level green businesses that in turn need to
hire tens of thousands (if not hundres of thousands) of
new employees (skilled, unskilled and professional) in jobs
that cannot be exported.
Collectively these thousands of green businesses will go a
long way to solving our country’s energy crisis, the world’s
climate crisis, and provide a solid foundation for renewed
economic prosperity at the community level and throughout the
country.
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Develops extensive network of renewable
energy sources and greatly expands conservation and efficiency
efforts.
The CEED Program provides the country with a means to focus
its widespread desire to develop a vast array of renewable
energy sources to replace fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
It directly, proactively and aggressively pushes energy
conservation and efficiency down to, and pervasively in, every
community, including low-income households.
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Provides business, technical and
financial support structures to ensure those new green
businesses succeed and uniquely leverages the expertise and
participation of the local small business community.
The CEED Program includes a business, technical and
financial support structure for those new small companies that
solves most of the key problems normally faced by independently
owned businesses - thereby better ensuring their survival,
health, growth, success and the fulfillment of their broader
mandate of solving our energy, climate and financial crises,
one company and one community at a time.
It also draws upon the expertise and participation of local
small business communities, in a concerted and cohesive manner.
Nobody understands small business like the small business
community, and the CEED Program provides them a means to
participate in national objectives.
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Breakthrough funding model makes billions
of institutional dollars available to those small companies,
retains the dollars in communities for a multiplier effect, and
reduces the financial burden on government.
Our unique funding model allows large, institutional funds
to directly invest in these small companies, bringing
substantial new dollars into each CEED community, dollars which
remain and multiply. We do this by removing the two key
obstacles that normally block institutional investment in small
businesses - excessive "due diligence" administrative load in
proportion to the size of the investment, and no direct path to
liquidity. The CEED model also encourages local angel investors
to invest alongside institutional investors and receive those
same benefits. (See its contrast in the Conventional Funding Model)
Finally, by providing a conduit for a large amount of
institutional capital, the CEED Program greatly reduces the
potential financial burden on federal, state and local
governments. Thus taxpayers don’t have to foot but a fraction
of the entire bill.
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