Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation

The Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation was founded as a not-for-profit society on July 17th, 2001, and is registered with the Province of British Columbia.

Constitution of the Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation

SOCIETY ACT

1. The name of the society is Salt Spring Island Monetary Foundation.
2. The purposes of the society are to design, issue and maintain a local currency for Salt Spring Island with the goal of raising funds for worthwhile community projects while promoting local commerce and goodwill.

The bylaws of the society are those set out in Statutes and Regulations of British Columbia, Schedule B to the Society Act.

Financial Statements and Reports

Reports are posted as they become available.

SSIMF Board of Directors

Shoshanah Ray Waxman

Shoshanah has been a community and sustainability activist for over 10 years. A resident of Salt Spring for the past 3 years, she has been creating community events around local food and climate change, putting on community potlucks, and was for a period a host for a radio show called "Green Light" exploring sustainable solutions. Her passion is for community engagement and finding creative solutions that contribute to self reliance.

Meron Moroz, Treasurer

Meron has recently joined the board of the Salt Spring Monetary Foundation as treasurer. With twenty years bookkeeping experience and a strong interest in finance, she brings solid skills and insight to the position. Born and raised in Uxbridge ON, a small town outside Toronto, she earned her bachelor of science in chemisty/biochemistry from McMaster University. Meron has lived on Salt Spring Island since 1991 where she raised her two children. Her wide array of volunteer experience includes coaching ball and being a beaver cub leader when her children were younger, but go far beyond to community projects promoting local self-sufficiency both here and in locations as far away as sub-Saharan Africa.

Michael Contardi, President

Michael is driven to help re-create a more compassionate, just world. It became apparent to him in the mid 90's that the world's social and environmental ills are rooted in the "money problem". Though not giving up the hope for change in the wider national and international systems, he has reserved himself to try and make grassroots change, by helping to develop a world-class alternative local money system. Michael is a professional business development manager for a successful, organic and fair trade coffee roaster; he is also principal of Virtuous Circle, a consulting company specializing in small business strategic planning and development. He has previously helped start a renewable energy company (www.cleancurrent.com) which Business Week voted as top one of the top 25 Clean Energy start-ups to watch. He has lived on Salt Spring Island for the past seven years, and is the father of three children.

Donn Tarris

Donn says, "I am not easily confined by boxes. If I do find myself in one, I am quick to begin altering its shape and appearance to be something more creative, having fewer corners. Our global money system is a very confining box, one that holds back the human species from becoming all it can be. I look forward to a time when humans need not measure their output by the hour, when they cease to keep track of who did what when. In the mean time, I work towards helping community currencies allow the fair trade of services and products within their communities, allowing all to participate. I have a widely varied background - water taxi driver, car wash manager, fish weight plant manager, plastics moulding, precast concrete draftsman, recording studio engineer/producer, musician, songwriter, night school teacher, digital graphics specialist, FileMaker Pro database developer, web designer, Mac computer specialist, and my current work in vintage tube audio mixer design and manufacture. I have a good understanding of business, tracking costs within businesses, customer relations. I believe I have a good grasp on how to create a fair working environment that is inclusive and rewarding. I also believe I have a good grasp on the connectedness of all activities and how a balance is needed to ensure sustainability. These are the values I feel I bring to the board of our community currency group."

Daniel Ruane

Daniel Ruane graduated as a civil engineer from University College Dublin and as has had a career in construction management primarily in the Vancouver area with his most recent project on Salt Spring being a successful JV with Hazenboom Construction on the seismic upgrade of the Middle School. He has spent almost a year at various times over the past decade living and studying in the Findhorn community in Scotland where he learnt about, and experienced firsthand what needs to happen when devising and implementing alternative economic and social initiatives. He is also enrolled in a Diploma in Group Counseling at the Haven Institute on Gabriola Island that further supports and integrates this process. Daniel is also a member of Transition Salt Spring and a director of one of its initiatives TSS Enterprise Cooperative. He has lived on Salt Spring for the past nine years.

SS IMF Mission Statement

"The purposes of the Society are to design, issue and maintain a local currency for Salt Spring Island with the goal of raising funds for worthwhile community projects while promoting local commerce and goodwill."

— Salt Spring IMF's mission statement