This proposal cites a lack of community control, economic empowerment, reinvestment of funds, and economic transparency as major challenges. The team recommends building a system of franchises, facilitated by an outside organization and funded through commercial investments, to encourage community involvement and to produce future income and investment opportunities with pooled resources.
Waterhouse
Challenges: Community Involvement, Empowerment, and Buy-In, Reinvestment of Funds, Social, Cultural, and Political, Limited Financing Options and/or Access to Funds, Financing
Solutions: Entrepreneuship Focused, Private Capital and/or Commercial Financing, Franchising Model, Operational Funding (Revinvestment), Risk Diversification and Shared Lending, Economic and Commercial, Business-Led, Financial, Social, Community Level Solution
