Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
CategoriesAccess to Capital Racial Wealth GapAs we are building toward Neighborhood Economics: Jackson, the emerging theme is this: creating assets to bridge the racial wealth gap. A big part of that focus will be on new innovative funds enabling sole proprietors to become job creators and to become eligible for the loans they cannot access now. Another focus will be […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Catalytic Capital Church Assets in Transition Faith + Finance Faith on Main Street Lining Up Endowments with Missions Local Economic Policy Local Mission-Guided Investing Neighborhood Investment Trust Ownership Matters Racial Wealth GapFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Neighborhood EconomicsAnna Golladayanna@faithfinance.netwww.neighborhoodeconomics.org Barber Joins Neighborhood Economics to Help Get Money Into the Hands of People Who Don’t Normally Get It (Asheville, North Carolina; Portland, Oregon – September 29, 2022) Leroy Barber, co-founder and president of the Voices Project, has been appointed Executive Director of Neighborhood Economics, effective October 1, 2022. Neighborhood […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Racial Wealth GapPhoto by Mikelya Fournier on Unsplash There is a custom in our town. If you want a BIPOC person, especially one leading a nonprofit, to address your club, church coffee hour, or other group interested in learning more about the issues related to economic justice they are working on, you pay them an honorarium of […]
CategoriesUncategorizedSummarizing the Summit It was 10AM on a mid-April day and the members of Jessica Norwood’s brain trust, after months of anticipation, was finally assembled face-to-face around a 14th floor Manhattan conference room at the Nathan Cummings Foundation. Almost everyone in the group had taken part in phone conversations with Jessica, Kevin Jones, and myself during […]
CategoriesUncategorizedAssembling the Tool Kit: Ours to Own An unfortunate reality lies at the core of most economically challenged cities in the US– there is a desperate need for funding of infrastructure projects, yet governments and charities cannot meet the full financial need. Ours to Own, a crowdsourced investment initiative from the Calvert Foundation, arises out of […]
CategoriesUncategorizedAssembling the Toolkit – Savings Groups In attempt to start filling out our toolkit of culturally appropriate financial solutions for African Americans, last week, Jessica, Kevin, and I spoke with Jeff Ashe who is an expert on all things related to Saving Groups. Ashe worked for years abroad figuring out the most efficient way to […]
CategoriesUncategorized(Above: One of Thornton Dial’s pieces, “Don’t Matter How Raggly The Flag, It Still Got To Tie Us Together“) Using the Lens of Culture to Craft Financial Tools In Mr. Dial Has Something to Say we are told the story of an artist named Thornton Dial. Growing up poor in the Black Belt of Alabama, Thornton […]
CategoriesUncategorizedThe Missing Infrastructure for Black Wealth Creation In the first blog post of a new project aimed at understanding and improving the state of wealth creation in black communities, much was left unsaid about the origin of this problem. With this second post, some gaps will be filled in. Let’s start with a hypothetical example. A […]
CategoriesUncategorizedCreating Wealth in African American Communities This post informally announces a new project and partnership that Neighborhood Economics is taking on surrounding wealth creation in African American communities. It is written by Bryan Lehrer, an intern at Sphaera, who has teamed up Kevin Jones and N.E. as a content/communications creator. Please stay tuned for more posts […]