Monadnock Region Pollinator Enterprises
From the Local Economy Solution: By Michael Shuman
A “pollinator” is a self-financing enterprise committed to boosting local business. Some pollinators are for-profit businesses, some are nonprofits, but all allow a community to undertake one or more of five key economic development functions — planning, purchasing, people, partnerships and purse — with far greater efficacy and at a substantially lower cost than typical, taxpayer-funded programs. All of the following models deploy business frameworks that ultimately aim to avoid dependency on government grants or charitable contributions: 28 Models of Pollinator Enterprises
What Pollinator Enterprises are active (or in the works) in the Monadnock Region?
Please share your knowledge with us.
Here’s what we’ve gathered so far:
Planning Pollinators
Purchasing Pollinators
- Hannah Grimes Marketplace
- Monadnock Buy Local's Placemaker Loyalty Program (in start-up stage)
- Monadnock Menus
- Monadnock Table Magazine
People Pollinators
- Antioch University New England
- Hannah Grimes Center for Entrepreneurship
- Machina Arts
- Make It So Makerspace
- Monadnock Art x Tech Makerspace
- New England Web & Tech Collective (NEWT)
- Regional Center for Advanced Manufacturing
- The Business Journal
- YEA! Young Entrepreneurs Academy
Partnership Pollinators
- Arts Alive!
- Greater Keene Chamber of Commerce
- Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce
- Jaffrey Chamber of Commerce
- Rindge Chamber of Commerce
- Hannah Grimes Center
- Keene Downtown Group
- Monadnock Buy Local
- Team Jaffrey