On March 22, 2016 Brenda Platt was joined by Dustin Fedako of Compost Pedallers and Ethany Uttech of ioby to talk about best practices for community composting. Below is the link to the recording, please pass it along to whomever you think would benefit from the conversation.
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Lor Holmes was unable to attend due to technical difficulties, but we’ll be sure to have her on for our next event. If you have any questions, ideas for future webinars, or if you’d like to volunteer to present, let us know that as well.
Crowdfunding and worker-owned cooperatives are just two of the models that have proven to work for community composters around the United States.
Please join Lor Holmes with CERO, and Dustin Fedako with Compost Pedallers for a deeper dive into crowdfunding for community composters.
Business planning and financing were among the hot topics community composters identified. In less than a year, CERO raised over $350,000 via nearly 100 community investors. The Compost Pedallers raised $25,000 on Indiegogo from336 backers. They’ll share tips based on their own lessons learned, and attendees will come away with a realistic idea of what to expect in the preparation, launch, live campaign, and reward fulfillment phases of a crowdfunding campaign.
Presenters
![]() Lor Holmes is CERO Cooperative’s General Manager. She leads business development, and like all of the CERO worker-owners, Lor shares a passion for environmental and social justice, sustainable economic development and democratic models for community ownership. |
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The event is organized by ILSR and BioCycle.



