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• JSFP to relocate to Grants Pass, OregonPublished December 31, 2010 at 10:50 am

  Jefferson State Forest Products, currently based in Hayfork, California, will be relocating to Grants Pass, Oregon by the end of the first quarter 2011.  JSFP will be based in the same facility as its sister organization Roguewood Furniture, and both companies will remain separate entities. The decision to relocate JSFP was made in late 2010 by Upstream 21′s Board of Directors based on a careful consideration of the impact on all stakeholders. By relocating JSFP [...]

• Social Finance From An Investor’s Perspective: Fifth in a SeriesPublished August 1, 2010 at 1:31 pm

  Leslie Christian, our Board Chair, also serves on the Investment Advisory Committee of RSF Social Finance, and has contributed a series of fantastic essays about impact investing in the 21st Century. This fifth essay in the series details the three investment strategies – Ecological Carpetbagging, Global Good, and Transition to Community – and offers example investments that fit the strategies. Leslie’s description of “Transition to Community” investing also sums up Upstream 21 quite nicely: “Employees, community, the environment, customers, [...]