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Diversified Community Investment Funds let a community raise money from its own people and invest it in local real estate and local businesses. NC3 helps communities launch them. SuperCrowd trains the investors and founders who make them work.
Starting a fund in your community? Start with NC3 ↓A DCIF is a community-scale fund, typically $5 to $15 million, that pools money from local investors and puts it to work close to home. NC3 developed the model with attorney Brian Beckon of Pathlight Law, building on Michael Shuman's decades of work on local investing.
Under Regulation Crowdfunding a DCIF can raise up to $5 million from anyone in the community, accredited or not. A state-registered direct public offering or Regulation A (up to $75 million) are options too.
Housing, storefronts, farms, historic downtowns, any kind of real estate. Keeping real estate and other non-securities at 60% or more of assets is the compliance strategy that keeps the fund outside the Investment Company Act.
The balance can back local companies and community projects, including businesses that go on to raise more from the crowd under Reg CF. That is where a fund's impact multiplies.
A DCIF can earn income, distribute profits to its community investors, and redeem shares, so ordinary people build wealth alongside the place they live.
Go deeper: NC3's DCIF overview and DCIF FAQ (PDFs) · Community investment fund structures · Brian Beckon, Pathlight Law · Michael Shuman's Main Street Journal · NC3's Chris Miller explains DCIFs on Superpowers for Good
The fund is the first check. The crowd is the multiplier. SuperCrowd equips both sides.
NC3's Accelerator takes it from idea to launch, in as little as 120 days.
NC3Under Reg CF, a direct public offering, or Reg A. Everyone can take part.
NC3 · SuperCrowdReal estate first, local businesses alongside, often before those businesses go to the crowd.
The fundA Reg CF raise multiplies the fund's capital and spreads ownership. SuperCrowd trains the founders.
SuperCrowdCommunity investors evaluate and back those raises with confidence. SuperCrowd equips them.
SuperCrowdMoney stays local. Ownership spreads. The fund's impact multiplies.
When a DCIF backs a local company and that company opens a Reg CF raise, you can invest directly, alongside the fund.
These are the tools SuperCrowd built so everyday investors can do that well: learn the rules, read the filings, run the diligence, and follow the market.
A DCIF can be your first check. A Reg CF raise brings your customers and neighbors in as owners.
No one provides more training and support for founders using Reg CF than SuperCrowd. These are the doors, from a $99 Fit Check to a full campaign review.
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NC3's Community Capital Accelerator takes a community from idea to launch, in as little as 120 days and for under $10,000 before legal fees. NC3 acts as your project manager and connects you to experienced practitioners at every step:
"We've got to be as collaborative as possible."
— Michael H. Shuman, on Superpowers for Good
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