Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
Post Helene, here in Asheville, we are finding that in doing local, small scale convening around pressing problems like water, electricity, connectivity, and community free food, the work of connecting the dots that we do at Neighborhood Economics is more valuable than ever. Gathering the people making a difference works in a disaster. And we […]
Building an interdependent economy Walking away from the myth of the rugged individual Mapping the capital to create neighborhood scale resilience When we were planning the content for the entrepreneurship ecosystem focused Neighborhood Economics conference set for mid-November in Asheville, we already had set up what we were calling a capital showcase. This was to explain […]
“There is a gap between the sustainable economy and the economy focused on economic justice. They seldom meet.” The core of a Neighborhood Economics conference is highlighting promising and potentially replicable solutions that are working to repair the economy in one neighborhood, solutions could be replicated in other city. At our national conferences, we highlight […]
We’ve got several exciting and intriguing sessions teed-up for our fall conference in Asheville. Rev. Luke Lingle, who worked with three Methodist churches in Asheville as they became vital community centers while maintaining worship spaces, has joined our team. He is going to lead our faith-based sessions looking at how churches create shared and mixed-use […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Community Investment Local Economic Policy Ownership Matters UncategorizedBrookings’ publishing of Lyneir Richardson’s Playbook for Buying Back the Block Through Community Real Estate Ownership is a milestone for the blended philanthropic and investment market community we gather at Neighborhood Economics conferences. The playbook offers a clear and replicable plan to repair local economies in cities across the country. The playbook, which is […]
Rabbi Elan Babchuck, who is presenting at Neighborhood Economics on his research into what’s working and what’s not in the faith-based accelerators from across the country, has written a book about a new kind of leadership. Writing with the Rev. Kathleen McShane, Director of Learning and Innovation for Texas Methodist Foundation and Wesleyan Impact Partners, […]
by Kevin Jones Patrick Covington helps lead a small foundation in Houston that’s beginning to switch to a place-based approach, as opposed to focusing on specific issue areas like education or health. Being focused on a place helps a local foundation see the connections between what can otherwise be siloed approaches and focus on root […]
By Joel Skene, Podcaster and Guest Writer As Host of The Mindful Marketplace on BizRadio.US, I am honored and humbled by the opportunity to partner with such a thoughtful and catalytic organization like Neighborhood Economics. My first career was in the Peace Corps, Housing for the Chronically Homeless, and Food Insecurity in Metro Detroit. […]
Neighborhood Economics is excited to add two new content partners this week. Michael Shuman, the acknowledged master of the ways people with average incomes can invest in businesses and real estate in their local economies, will be doing a twice-a-month webinar with me, highlighting one particular new innovative fund each time. The funds we interview […]
We need to delegitimize the often hidden and unconscious way that money and the wealthy rule the world, says Marjorie Kelly in a thoughtful new book Kelly and the Democracy Collaborative were among the early leaders in the movement toward shared ownership, with their innovative Cleveland Coop which generated jobs, new businesses, and democratic wealth […]