Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
If you want to make a difference in the world, it just got easier and simpler to do. With the launch of the Economic Justice marketplace in North Carolina, people can give to bridge the racial wealth gap. Everybody can do this; white people can begin to repair economic injustices. For a donation of as […]
CategoriesUncategorizedNeighborhood Economics will convene the people who are investing in communities in a way that bridges the racial wealth gap in Jackson, Mississippi in early May. We bring capital to the people and places that don’t normally get it. Neighborhood Economics has shown it is able to bring together three funding streams that don’t typically […]
CategoriesCatalytic Capital Racial Wealth GapDerek Peebles has a clear vision of what he wants to accomplish leading Cincinnati’s Common Good Collective. “We want to create Black wealth in our community,” said the 30-something African American who also leads Amiba, a national association of independent businesses. Nationally, the average white family has $140,000 and the average Black family has $14,000 […]
CategoriesFaith + Finance Faith on Main StreetIn Dave Kresta’s book, Jesus on Main Street, he outlines a path for Christian congregations to engage in community economic development. Unlike traditional economic development, which can result in marginalized communities being displaced and forced to move to make way for highways or housing projects for affluent homeowners or retail, community economic development includes the […]
CategoriesAccess to Capital Faith + Finance“Why are you meeting?” That’s the first question Landis Graden asks of a dwindling congregation looking at options for their future when he engages with them. “What’s the purpose of your meeting, what’s at the center of your congregation, what’s your anchor?” Graden asks those congregations. “If I hear we’ve been worshiping together for 40 […]
CategoriesAccess to CapitalOne of the things that became clear in the Design Labs at Neighborhood Economics in Indianapolis is that every practitioner had a slightly different approach to creating a solution and that each had a lot to learn from the other. “We saw people at the conference doing, for example, neighborhood investment trusts differently in Indianapolis, […]
CategoriesAccess to CapitalIn our “field guide to transformation: taking seriously your congregation’s role to economic justice,” we describe a number of important roles in doing this work. One of the important and often misunderstood roles is that of the connected evangelist. In the public policy for Design Lab at our recent Neighborhood Economics, lab co-leader Scott Shallet […]
The neighborhood investment trust creators who participated in the Neighborhood Economics conference lab want to raise a $100 million fund to replicate their model across the country. Neighborhood Investment Trusts help neighbors invest in Black Wall Streets and their neighborhood businesses to keep them safe from the hedge funds. These hedge funds have raised billions […]
When we held the transform conference a couple of years ago, we decided we would not focus on regenerative agriculture and forestry, though that, as has been shown, was the largest market opportunity; it’s been growing at an accelerating rate. At our core, however, we, the founders of SOCAP, realized that we care about, and […]
CategoriesAccess to CapitalSome places have figured out how to respond to climate change intelligently, collectively, and practically, in a way that energizes communities and lifts people from the crippling fear and imaginations of impending doom that often besets progressives. I’ve been interviewing people from some of those places, and I have some initial patterns to report back. […]