[Lapg] Saturday, June 23, 2012 6pm, An Evening at Hearst Ranch San Lius Obispo, with Woody Tasch 2012 Annual Fundraiser

[Wesley Roe and Santa Barbara Permaculture Network]

A Taste of the Future
2012 Annual Fundraiser
Hearst Ranch San Simeon

Saturday, June 23, 2012 6pm
An Evening at Hearst Ranch
with Woody Tasch
Founder & Chairman SLOW MONEY & Author of

"Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing As If Food, Farms 
and Fertility Mattered www.slowmoney.org

A Fundraiser or Cal Poly's College of Agriculture, Food and the 
Environmental Sciences' Center for Sustainability
http://www.cfs.calpoly.edu/

Cal Poly to Host Woody Tasch at Hearst Ranch Fundraiser

SAN LUIS OBISPO – Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and 
Environmental Sciences’ Center for Sustainability will host its seventh 
annual fundraising dinner, A Taste of the Future, Saturday, June 23 at 6 
p.m. at Hearst Ranch, in San Simeon, Calif.

Guests will enjoy a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception followed by a live 
auction, gourmet dinner and socializing under the stars. Central Coast 
chefs and vintners will prepare a multi-course meal under the direction 
of Maegen Loring of the Neon Carrot Restaurant. All ingredients will be 
locally grown and sustainably raised. Tickets are $125 per person. 
Seating is limited.

The featured guest speaker this year will be Woody Tasch, author of 
“Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms 
and Fertility Mattered,” and president and founder of Slow Money.

The event will highlight innovative enterprises emerging on the Central 
Coast and new initiatives from the Center for Sustainability. New 
programs include the launch of the Cal Poly Compost Project offering 
education, research and professional development in composting and 
nutrient cycling, regional foodshed collaborations, and student internships.

For more information or tickets to these events, call the Center for 
Sustainability at 805-756-5086 or go to www.cfs.calpoly.edu.

About Slow Money
Slow Money is a nonprofit organization formed to catalyze the flow of 
investment capital to small food enterprises and to promote new 
principles of fiduciary responsibility supporting sustainable 
agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. In 2010, “Utne 
Reader” named Tasch one of 25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.

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WOODY TASCH
Woody Tasch is Chairman and President of Slow Money (www.slowmoney.org),
a 501(c)3 formed in 2008 to catalyze the flow of investment capital to 
small food
enterprises and to promote new principles of fiduciary responsibility to 
support
sustainable agriculture and the emergence of a restorative economy. For ten
years, through 2008, Tasch was Chairman of Investors' Circle, a network 
of angel
investors, family offices, and social purpose funds and foundations that has
invested $133 million in 200 early stage sustainability-promoting 
ventures and
venture funds, since 1992. During much of the 1990s, Woody was Treasurer of
the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, where, as part of an innovative 
missionrelated
venture capital investing program, a substantial investment was made in 
Stonyfield Farm, now the
world’’s largest maker of organic yogurt. Woody has worked as an 
entrepreneur, venture capitalist, board
member and consultant with such organizations as Prince Ventures (a 
healthcare venture fund), Healthdata
International, CERES (the Coalition for Environmentally Responsible 
Economies), National Mentor,
Greenway, the Nantucket Education Trust, the Gordon and Betty Moore 
Foundation, Northwest Area
Foundation, CIMMYT (the International Maize and Wheat Improvement 
Center) and The Farmers Diner.
Woody's involvement in food dates back to 1979, when he developed a case 
study program at The International
Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (home of Norman Borlaug's dwarf wheat 
and the "green revolution");
he co-authored Food Production and Public Policy in Developing Countries 
(Praeger Special Studies).
He has been founding Chairman of several NGOs: the Community Development 
Venture Capital Alliance
(supporting over 100 small-scale venture funds that target economically 
disadvantaged regions), Sustainable
Nantucket (environmentally responsible growth management on Nantucket 
Island) and the Nantucket
Education Trust (affordable housing for teachers). Articles, interviews 
or profiles have appeared in Ode,
Hemisphere, Green Money Journal, Amherst Alumni Magazine, Resurgence, 
Andover Review, Utne Reader,
More Than Money, Il Sole-24 Ore (Italian financial press), Steering 
Business Towards Sustainability (United
Nations University Press), WBUR and Conscious Talk Radio. He is a 
frequent speaker at various socially
responsible business and sustainable agriculture venues, including 
Social Venture Network, SRI in the Rockies
and Terra Madre. Woody is the author of Inquiries into the Nature of 
Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms, and
Fertility Mattered (Chelsea Green).