Stan Amy
Stan is president of New Villages Group, Ltd., a small family fund that invests capital and time in mission balanced endeavors. Its focus is on the natural products industry, adaptive reuse of neighborhood retail and mixed-use real-estate, and small business finance. He serves on the board of Craft3, a leading CDFI (Community Development Finance Institution), that helps create economic equity and a healthy environment through mission-centric lending in rural and urban communities in the Pacific Northwest.
His past experience has been focused in three areas: Housing and Urban Development: Assistant to Portland City Commissioner with Planning and Public Works portfolio; Vice Chair of Portland Planning Commission. Community Development Finance: Board Member, ShoreBank Corporation of Chicago, the nation’s first chartered social purpose bank; Board Member, ShoreBank Pacific. Consumer Empowerment: Co-Founder and President, Portland Student Services (now College Housing Northwest ) a student initiated Not-For-Profit housing development company; President, Natures Fresh Northwest, a pioneering natural foods grocer empowering consumers to vote with their dollars for a healthy food supply and environment; Co-Founder and Board Chair, New Seasons Market, an Oregon-based grocery chain creating urban/rural partnerships between local farmers, ranchers, fishers, producers, and consumers in the greater Portland metropolitan area, and the San Francisco Bay Area (New Leaf Community Markets).