Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
A group of CDFI and other innovative finance professionals who attended the recent Neighborhood Economics conference in Chicago have been hard at work. They’re building a playbook to address a
For years, Neighborhood Economics has focused on the mechanics of local repair: entrepreneurship as a path to wealth for marginalized communities, community-owned real estate, housing that’s “more affordable than affordable,”
There’s a particular kind of magic that happens when people who are repairing local economies find each other. Not in an abstract, “let’s collaborate someday” kind of way — but
