Society to Benefit Everyone

Who Are We?

Common Good Bank communities are a project of many partner organizations, led by Society to Benefit Everyone. Each of the partners helps to move the project forward in some substantial way: funding, publicity, oversight, technical assistance and/or active planned participation in the Common Good Bank model at the local level, once the Common Good Bank opens. Partner with us!

Core Partner Organizations

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Center For The Advancement Of The Steady State Economy advances the steady state economy, with stabilized population and consumption, as a policy goal with widespread public support.
Class Action raises awareness, facilitates cross-class dialogue, supports cross-class alliances, and works with others to promote economic justice.
Coop Power is a regional network of local communities creating a multi-class, multi-racial movement for a sustainable and just energy future.
Earth Action informs and inspires people everywhere to turn their concern, passion and outrage into meaningful action for a more just, peaceful and sustainable world.
Empowerment Works! is a catalyst for community-led action, devoted to the genesis of a global partnership for a sustainable world.
Gasoline Alley Foundation teaches inner city youth and/or underprivileged persons to be successful entrepreneurs while revitalizing inner city neighborhoods, with a concentration on socially responsible/sustainable business practices.
Meadowbrook Lane Capital (MBLC) Investment Bank serves businesses that value social responsibility as a sustainable economic driver, a strategic cornerstone, and a source of competitive advantage.
New England Small Farm Institute supports sustainable small-scale agriculture and beginning farmers throughout the Northeast.
Peace Development Fund works to build the capacity of community-based organizations through grants, training, and other resources as partners in human rights and social justice movements.
Post Oil Solutions advances cooperative, sustainable communities in an age of global climate change and declining fossil fuels.
Society to Benefit Everyone promotes sensible and compassionate, community-based democratic economics.
United for a Fair Economy raises awareness that concentrated wealth and power undermine the economy, corrupt democracy, deepen the racial divide, and tear communities apart. Supports social movements for greater equality.
(with many more organizations collaborating informally)

Core Project Staff (Where are we?)

Community Division Organizers (Where are we?)
William Spademan, Executive Director, President of Common Good Finance
Amie Chaudoir, Personnel Director
Sarah Noyes, Program Assistant
Marlin Benton	Kansas City, MO
Todd Chinnock	Inland Empire, CA
Rick Devoe	Nashville, TN
Thomas Finnell	Brattleboro, VT
Randall Jones	Salem, OR
Eric Krawczyk	Gunnison, CO
Chris Meyer	Michiana Region
John G. Root, Jr.	Great Barrington, MA
Wendell Wiebe-Powell	Michiana Region
William Zwicker	Eugene, OR

Legal Consultants

Ropes & Gray, LLP

Nicolai Law Group, PC

Gallagher, Callahan & Gartrell, PC

Champa & Powers, PA

Messick & Weber, PC

Project Advisory Board*

Advisors in indigo type will serve on the board of directors of the Common Good Bank, along with founding investors and representatives from partner organizations.

David Ahlfeld
Engineer
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Marcus Asay
President
American Banking
Financial Institution Consultants

Andrew Baker
Executive Director
Hilltown Community Development Corp.

Lois Jewel Barber
Executive Director
EarthAction

Claire Bateman
Investor

Bill Baue
Co-Founder/Host
Sea Change Radio

Lynn Benander
Business Development Consultant

Laura Bessette
Owner
Ashfield Hardware

Ellen Hodgson Brown
Attorney / Author

Sam Cooley
Director, Development and Products
TradeTech Consulting

Alan Eccleston
Organizational Effectiveness Consultant
Change Work Associates

Riane Eisler
President
Center for Partnership Studies

Manfred Gabriel
former Senior Associate Attorney
Latham & Watkins

Sheila Garrett
Teacher
The Meeting School

Julie Graham (in Memoriam)
Feminist Economist
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Thomas Greco
Director, Community Economist
Community Information Resource Center

Gerald Higginbotham
Founder
Living Learning In Faith Everyday

Nancy Hoff
Owner
Ashfield Hardware

David Hurwith
former Chairman of the Board
FirstCom Bancorp

Juliet Jacobson
Web Designer

Randy Kehler
Promoting Active Nonviolence

Wendell Kelley
Owner
Kelley Woodworking

Amy Klippenstein
Owner
Sidehill Farm

Paul Lacinski
Founder
Greenspace Collaborative

Prakash Laufer
Executive Director
The Brick House Community Resource Center

Robert Lester
President
Gerencia Ambiental Internacional

Peter Letson
Mathematician, retired

George Levinger
Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Carol Lewis
former Director of Finance and Administration
Community Partners

Christopher Lindstrom
Special Projects Coordinator
E.F. Schumacher Society

Mary Link
Fundraising Consultant

Tom MacLean (in Memoriam)
Engineer, retired
Boeing

Chris Martenson
The Crash Course

Andrew Martin
President
ADDvantaged, Inc.

Michael Mazgaonkar
Rural Development Consultant
Pariavaran Suraksha Samiti

Mike McCusker
Founder
McCusker's Market

Blake Meike
Principal Engineer
JumpTap, Inc

Chris Meyer
Stewardship Investing Specialist
Mennonite Mutual Aid

Terry Mollner
Executive Director
Trusteeship Institute

Mike Morton
Software Engineer
Google, Inc.

Aji Palar
Student

Valerie Palar
former Town Clerk
Town of Ashfield, MA

Bill Perlman
former Chair
Ashfield, MA Select Board

Phil Pless
Realtor
Upton-Massamont Realtors

Chris Rawlings
Owner
Waterhouse Pools

Donald J. Sarich
CEO
Permaculture Credit Union

Blake H. Schmidt
former Personnel Director
Common Good Finance

Michael Shuman
Director of Research and Public Policy
Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

J.W. Smith
Institute for Economic Democracy

Suzette Snow Cobb
Manager
Green Fields Market

Barbara Snyder
C.P.A., Manager
Whittlesey & Hadley, P.C.

Susan Spademan
Real Estate Broker, retired
Coldwell Banker Spademan Assocs.

Karen Werner
Teacher of Sociology
Goddard College

John White
Carpenter, MBA

* Organization names are for identification purposes only and do not imply formal affiliation or endorsement.

Who Are We?

Core Partner Organizations

Core Project Staff (Where are we?)

Community Division Organizers (Where are we?)

Legal Consultants