Bellingen Chamber of Commerce

Dear Slow Money Signatory,

As 2009 ends, we want to thank you for your participation in the Slow Money movement. It has been a remarkable year for us.

3,000 of you have signed the Slow Money Principles. More than 150 Founding Members joined the Slow Money Alliance, contributing $1,000 or more each, and bringing together a very strong group of leaders in philanthropy, social investing, sustainable agriculture and organic food. More than 750 individuals overall joined the Alliance for $25 or more. Our inaugural national gathering in September in Santa Fe attracted 450 folks from 34 states and 6 countries. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money: Investing as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered was circulated among many Boards and families, was recently published in  Italian, and is coming out in Japanese in early 2010. We received significant national media attention, from the Wall Street Journal to the Huffington Post.

Please take a few minutes to read the Slow Money Overview

We also hope you will enjoy November’s ACRES USA interview, which calls us the “Slow

Money Revolution.” And, if you want a look under the hood at our activities, there’s our Progress Report, too.

You will be hearing from us more frequently in 2010, as we launch our new campaign to get a million signatures for the Principles, on our way to 100,000 members in the Alliance — a new, grassroots force for fixing our economy, from the ground up. . .starting with food.. We also hope you will enjoy November’s ACRES USA interview, which calls us the “Slow Money Revolution.” And, if you want a look under the hood at our activities, there’s our Progress Report, too.

Wishing you the best for the holidays and the New Year, and, again, THANKS!

Woody Tasch

Chairman and President