CREATE Community Charters

Today in the CREATE Community column, I am interested in how a new charter of the Leadon Family Foundation will help build and create community. I have taken on the responsibility to move forward with being chairman of such an entity by the foundadation's president, Charlie Leadon. On April 1rst, we are also beginning an integrated media daily CREATECast with a podcast and this column. Monday is community driven.

Current Model

In the small town and surrounding areas that I serve and throughout the state of Colorado, ministry, industry and economics are heavily focused on non-profit associations that rely on government and private funding. In many cases our biggest export are human resources, albeit education and military. While this may work for the short term it is hard to see it sustaining our communities for the long haul.

Orchards

The Colorado Chapter of Leadon Family Foundation is made up of entrepreneurs and founders who invest in sustaining communities in real estate, retail, farm to table, media, arts, ranching, farming, travel transportation, finance, education, and Main Street Economics. In Europe home grown economic students in entrepreneurship are tasked to start 7 new ventures in 7 European Countries while they are in college. sustaining their home, work and community. They are often mentored by entrepreneurs who are their professors and colleagues. In the end students are debt free, and are building an economic infrastructure through innovation.

Systematic Success

This is a model of where online colleges foster community as a campus. And pass the baton to future generations in a Deming Systematic investment where everyone wins.

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