Scenes set here
- Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalismno coverShorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism
Brian Trelstad
“In 2006, Zita Cobb and two of her brothers, Alan Cobb and Tony Cobb, native Newfoundlanders, launched Shorefast to help grow another leg of Fogo Island's economy. Like so many r…”
Revitalizing PLACE through Social EnterpriseNatalie Slawinski
“Shorefast is a charitable organization launched in 2006 with a mission to build cultural and economic resilience on Fogo Island. Situated off the northeast coast of the island p…”
Books here
- subjectRevitalizing PLACE through Social Enterprise
Natalie Slawinski
Shorefast's place-based work on Fogo Island is the foundational case study from which the editors' PLACE Framework emerged. Subject (not setting) — the book is academic prose about Fogo, not narrative set there.
- Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalismno coversubjectShorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism
Brian Trelstad
HBS case study by Trelstad, Smith, and Slawinski (2020, rev. 2025) anchored to Shorefast's Fogo Island Inn / Joe Batt's Arm operation.