Investing in Dreamfish

Dreamfish has a big vision - empowering sustainable work for as many people as possible. We seek to increase economic opportunity for the disadvantaged, alleviate poverty and mobilize the power of diversity through our peer-to-peer micro-enterprise network. We use a for-profit strategy to deliver on this promise.

Members grow Dreamfish.

In our cooperative, members are owners and producers.  To grow the cooperative, members pay Dreamfish 10% of revenue earned in the cooperative. Many members also contribute service time to build the cooperative.

We operate with ByLaws that reflect standards among cooperatives, established by the International Cooperative Alliance.

 

Capital Structure

Charlie Seashore, Tiffany von Emmel, and Don Bushnell

We enable all members, and outside institutions to get involved in Dreamfish through:
 

  1. 1. Direct Investment
  2. 2. Tax-deductible Gift
  3. 3. Good Will Gift

 

1. Direct Investment

Dreamfish offers two direct investment opportunities - member ownership, and preferred class B stock.

Class A Stock: Member ownership

Dreamfish is owned by Dreamfish members. As a member, you invest in Dreamfish when you purchase one share of Dreamfish for $25.
 
As a Class A stock holder, you receive dividends on an annual basis, determined annually by the board. Your dividend amount will be proportional to the amount of money that you contributed to the cooperative. You may redeem your dividends in the form of Class B stock (read below) or money back.
 
Class A Stock has voting rights. After one year of active membership, each active member has one vote in the cooperative governance.
 

Class B Stock: Preferred dividends

Dreamfish members are eligible to invest in Dreamfish Stock B. Class B stock holders receive dividends on an annual basis at a target of 5%, and receive dividends distribution, before Class A stock holders. Class B stock has no voting rights.
 
Each investment is a minimum of $5,000 dollars.  Class B stock holders hold the stock for a minimum of five years. When selling the stock, holders must sell back to Dreamfish, and at the same price that the stock was originally purchased from Dreamfish. 

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  • Learn about investing in Dreamfish by contacting Tiffany von Emmel, Founder and CEO, at vonemmel@dreamfish.com

 

2. Tax-deductible Gifts

Dreamfish partners with nonprofit educational organizations, that are interested to enable their learning community to benefit from service learning in Dreamfish. Dreamfish provides students and faculty with a transformative learning experience and innovative research opportunities that result in social impact.

Fielding Dreamfish Fellows Fund

 Fielding Graduate University, a 501c3 graduate level educational institution, has established the Fielding Dreamfish Fellows Fund through Fielding's Institute for Social Innovation. For  a gift of $4,850, you will fund one Fielding student, alumni or faculty to serve as a Dreamfish Fellow for six months to facilitate community leadership in Dreamfish.

3. Good Will Gifts: empowering members

Many Dreamfish members start learning work skills and building their lives by working on team projects in Dreamfish. To start working effectively on a project team, a member will need to have stable access to food, lodging, internet access, computer, phone service, and means of transportation. To help support onboarding, Dreamfish fellows are also seeking to provide local trainings in low-income regions. To enable members to work effectively in Dreamfish, please consider to pledge the following:

  • phone card minutes
  • Skype minutes
  • lodging credit
  • laptops - Netbooks, used Macs and PC laptops
  • airline miles and airline tickets
  • co-transportation credit
  • co-working space credit
  • internet cafe credits
  • cell phones and carrier minutes

How to give goods and services to other Dreamfish members

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  • How to give goods to Dreamfish:

    • List what you offer in your member profile. 

    • Seek a project that is listing a "want" that you can provide. Contact the project owner.

 

To learn more about investment and partnership opportunities, contact:

Americas and Africa
Tiffany von Emmel
Founder and CEO
vonemmel[at]dreamfish.com
Skype: vonemmel
San Francisco, California
 
Europe and Asia
Marie-Anne Haour
VP, Operations
mahaour@dreamfish.com
Skype: ladymarieanne
Paris, France
 

To start investing in Dreamfish, become a Dreamfish member today

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