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A Circle of Trust
EUGENE, Oregon, Summer 2003 (Charles Gray, YES Magazine) - I’ve always hated the idea that the only ways to protect against emergencies are to build up a big pot of money or to deal with faceless insurance companies that don’t really care about individuals and the challenges they face. So 15 years ago, I launched a mutual security fund experiment with about a dozen friends. We dubbed the fund FIN, for Friend in Need. Fin is an old slang expression for a five dollar bill. All of us had modest incomes, so pooling our money made it possible to deal with emergencies we might not otherwise have been able to handle. http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=603
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