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Cutting Edge Client Bay Area Ranchers Cooperative, or BAR-C, have officially launched their crowdfunding campaign. Individuals now have a chance to invest in responsible meat processing and support local, humane harvest with minimal environmental impact. Learn more about BAR-C's investment opportunity here: https://wefunder.com/bay.area.ranchers

In our latest newsletter, we're sharing more about Cutting Edge client, MedFire Innovations, who has just launched an intrastate DPO. MedFire is uniquely positioned to create an impact with the development of several innovative products aimed at keeping first responders safe. Read more about MedFire here: https://conta.cc/34jmsN2

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Will regulation crowdfunding be the saving grace for small businesses? Small businesses and organizations face growing financial challenges as the pandemic stretches on, but an alternative capital-raising strategy has emerged as a potential saving grace. For many of our clients, regulation crowdfunding has been the solution in a sea of problems. But for others, it's a completely new and unknown concept.

Oakland-based nonprofit organizations that have been negatively impacted by the pandemic now have until October 28th to apply for the Oakland CARES grant. Eligible organizations can receive unrestricted grants of up to $25,000, which is funded by the Federal CARES Act and administered by Community Vision on behalf of the City of Oakland - Local Government.

For our final installment of #MeetTheTeam, we're introducing Marketing Communications Associate Erinn Brooks, who has worked as a communications professional for over a decade in industries spanning fashion, public service & education. As a Bay Area native, Erinn aims to support and uplift local entrepreneurs and small business owners from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds while utilizing her professional background as a communicator and educator. In her free time, Erinn enjoys working her way through cookbooks, playing tennis, traveling and spending quality time with her family. If you missed our series or want to learn more about the entire Cutting Edge team, please visit: https://www.cuttingedgecapital.com/ourteam/

Join Cutting Edge Managing Partner Brian Beckon at the 12th Annual Bay Area Capital Connections Conference, happening tomorrow, October 2, 2020. The conference, which is produced by the AllianceFund for Community Development in partnership with Oakstop, will highlight existing and future models of economic and social change in the Bay Area. https://hopin.to/events/bay-area-capital-connections-xii

For this week's edition of #MeetTheTeam, we're introducing one of CEC's newest team members, attorney Randy Nye. Randy's law practice focuses on matters relating to executive compensation and employee benefits. He originally cultivated this expertise while practicing at a large Cleveland, Ohio based law firm and subsequently became a principal in his family’s financial services business. At the same time, Randy also maintained a boutique law practice focusing on private client issues. In addition to his of counsel relationship with Cutting Edge, Randy is shifting his professional attention to the highly complementary consumer and producer focused cooperative design center he founded. When Randy takes a break from work, he indulges in his favorite vacation activity: taking long walks in the morning in new places.

Meet Elizabeth Carter, a social enterprise and securities attorney licensed in Illinois, New Jersey, and New York where she helps democratize business capital and the securities legal space through accessible legal services to underrepresented issuers. Prior to her recent work, Elizabeth provided legal representation to individuals, nonprofits, small businesses and government agencies in various community economic development initiatives. Elizabeth also founded and served as... Lead Counsel & Executive Director of the Urban Cooperative Enterprise Legal Center, Inc., a 501c3 nonprofit organization with a mission to create and support cooperative enterprises within marginalized communities in order to promote local sustainability. https://www.cuttingedgecapital.com/ourteam/ #MeetTheTeam

In our latest newsletter, we're sharing information on building a network of investors with new opportunities to invest in New Way Homes and a chance to participate in the Revalue Investor Collaborative Fall Cohort. Learn more here: https://conta.cc/3mGV2rt

For #MeetTheTeam Wednesday, we're introducing Daniel Dellafosse, a Bay Area native providing corporate and business legal services to startups and existing businesses. Before he was an attorney, he worked as a regional medical device sales representative for about 10 years. He decided to go to law school so that he could provide legal services to people and/or businesses that usually do not have access to the legal industry. In his free time Daniel is an avid golfer who once made a hole-in-one on the 13th hole at San Geronimo Golf Course, in San Geronimo, CA.

Today we're meeting Nicole Motter, one of the country’s leading experts on program-related investments, innovative finance for foundations, and capital raising strategies for social enterprises. A lifelong change maker, Nicole spent nearly a decade working with underserved youth and communities before going to law school to pursue social impact on a larger scale. She has since cultivated a career that combines her wide-ranging knowledge and expertise in ground level program ...development and implementation, research and education, corporate and impact investing law. As a lover of baked goods, Nicole considers herself a self-proclaimed chocolate chip cookie critic. In addition to practicing law, Nicole is a restorative yoga teacher and sound work practitioner. https://www.cuttingedgecapital.com/ourteam/

Cutting Edge is intentional about the type of organizations we work with, with a special emphasis on mission-driven organizations and impact investing. One of the most common capital raise strategies we employ include Direct Public Offerings or DPOs. Want to know more about DPOs? Check out the video to learn more: