DEc 4 2pm Ojai Greening Our Valley- Meditation and Imagini

Walter and Susan Davis Moora are global nomads currently traveling for a year to towns intending to go green, sharing stories of how other towns are doing it. In particular, they'll share the story of Vilcabamba, Ecuador. There, they started a "KINS Innovation Network" pro-bono using some contributed U.S. funds to help this Andean village become a model global village based on love, trust and generosity.

Before telling their story, Walter and Susan will lead a meditation on the Earth at Meditation Mount; residents of Ojai Valley are invited to participate. Walter and Susan will invite us to co-create a 'go green' vision by asking us to imagining the fulfillment of what we have already undertaken to green Ojai Valley. From that spiritual place, they'll ask us to share what role that we've played, doing what we love to do and do well without pay.

http://www.capitalmissions.com/
Capital Missions Company (CMC) creates networks of investors, business leaders and philanthropists to catalyze a globally sustainable economy. Over the past 26 years, President Susan Davis, has successfully proven KINS (Key Initiator Network Strategy), her networking method, as a time-efficient and cost-efficient approach to introduce innovation into culture. KINS networks leverage philanthropic dollars into catalytic initiatives to solve social problems and is based on the understanding that 'we are all one'.

Over the past 26 years Susan Davis, using the KINS method, has served as a founding organizer for networks of sustainability leaders, solar leaders, angel investors, institutional investors, Nigerian village women, social venture capitalists, leading socially-responsible CEOs, families with wealth of $100 million plus, leading women business owners, leading finance executives, and Chicago women leaders.

As founding organizer, she suggested the network's mission, raised the funds to organize the network, identified the constituencies to be represented, researched to find the servant leaders to represent each constituency, brought the servant leaders together to design the network and then executed the design they created. After 1-3 years, when each network was ready for self-administration, CMC spun off the networks to be independent.

CMC recently spun off the Tipping Point Network. The Tipping Point Network was intended to focus philanthropic funds to increase the market share of sustainability from its current 2% to 10%, after which the 'tipping point' is expected to occur and the global economy is expected to fund sustainability. (See the TPN power point to the left.) When servant leaders from 35 constituencies gathered heeding this call, they decided to focus on powerful collaborations they created across many spheres to create sustainability's tipping point. In the first year, more than $3 million in grants and pledges was committed to tipping point initiatives. TPN keeps a low profile to avoid "institutional narcissism" and members have a particular interest in "local living economies."

CMC shares the KINS innovation method "open source" on its website as each network enhances the KINS design over the last one. The latest enhancements have been created by the Tipping Point Network and are summarized in the TPN powerpoint on this page.

Susan Davis is presently creating a KINS Innovation Network pro bono in Vilcabamba, Ecuador, a model global eco-village. Eight village leaders from different constituencies have launched a dozen projects they are passionate about to serve Vilcabamba through a network named "Ayni Mollepamba" (Reciprocity in Mollepamba), a neighborhood of Vilcabamba. Working pro bono, they have received grants for their out-of-pocket expenses from FlowFunding.org, Marion Weber's innovative program in philanthropy. Through FlowFunds channeled through this KINS Innovation Network, we are demonstrating how 100% of philanthrophic funds from the developed world can get to the ground in the developing world. In addition, GlobalGiving.com is a third partner. Not only do FlowFunds come through them, but our projects will soon be shown on the GlobalGiving.com website so that anyone in the world can contribute to them using PayPal.

Susan Davis is now available for key consulting assignments offering high leverage in transforming the global economy to sustainability. Those interested are invited to contact us

Susan Davis, president of Capital Missions, has been working in the trenches of our dysfunctional capital markets for decades. She helped found the community bank ShoreBank; the Committee of 200, a group of top women business owners she empowered to take charge of their money; and Investors' Circle, a national network of social venture capital investors. Susan founded most of the effective networks of investors funding solar energy and shifting our global economy toward sustainability. Susan is working closely with me to ?accelerate the growth of the green economy. We've given up on Wall Street, so we're helping launch a new electronic stock exchange exclusively devoted to socially responsible investors and enterprises, Mission Markets. Like most female leaders, Susan isn't ego-driven, nor does she seek publicity or power. Only since the current financial crises are women being called on for advice; Wall Street has always been a male bastion and still deeply resists women. Susan has long believed the most effective approach to deep social change is to fly under the radar. So it gives me great pleasure to nominate her in the hope that she gets some richly deserved credit at last.

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