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Jenny Kassan
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Jenny Kassan is an attorney and community development consultant, specializing in environmentally friendly and socially responsible ventures. She is the managing director of Katovich Law Group, CEO of Cutting Edge Capital, and President of Community Ventures, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the economic and social development of communities.
Jenny earned a masters degree in City and Regional Planning from the University of California at Berkeley and earned her J.D. from Yale Law School. She worked for eleven years at the Unity Council, a nonprofit community development corporation in Oakland, where she served as staff attorney and managed community economic development projects including the formation and management of several social ventures designed to employ and create business ownership opportunities for low-income community residents.
She served as president of Oakland Merchants Leadership Forum, the Oakland chapter of Business Alliance for Local Living Economies; member of the Project Area Committee for the Central City East Redevelopment Area; treasurer for California Main Street Alliance; member of the Oakland Mayor’s Small Business Task Force; and member of the board of directors of Oakland’s City-wide Community Land Trust. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Local Ecology and Agriculture Fremont and the Sustainable Business Alliance.
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The Legal Landscape of Social Enterprise and the Sharing Economy
length: 1:08:23 credit: Sustainable Economies Law Center Oct 11, 2011
Janelle Orsi and Jenny Kassan of the Sustainable Economies Law Center present.
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Kassan post on the JOBS Act in the Huffington Post
Jenny Kassan
Post Carbon Advisor Jenny Kassan's post on the potential of crowd funding to boost small business appeared in the Huffington Post. From the article: Today the President will sign the Jumpstart Our Business Startups … >>
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