Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
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. […]
CategoriesRacial Wealth GapThis is a story of how systems change. In this case, the power shifted because a Black entrepreneur asserted his power against the thoughtlessly oppressive credit card and banking fee system. He started a fund to help Black and brown sole proprietors become job creators, and this created the room for the system to shift, […]
Originally posted on Faith+Finance on September 10, 2021 Nathaniel Willis was a gardener. He built educational gardens for public schools. When his project was up for renewal in the school district budget, he discovered what power was, and what it was like to not have any. His life changed that day. He got a few […]
CategoriesCatalytic Capital Faith + FinanceOriginally published at Faith+Finance on September 17, 2021 Sister Corinne Florek has been called the Godmother of Community Development Finance; leading Catholic women’s religious orders to invest into marginalized communities all over the country and the world, in response to the Gospel. She led in creating a fund that now includes channels the investments of […]
CategoriesUncategorizedStewardship is a concept I learned at one of the most important stops on my seemingly circuitous path to now: my work in southeast Oklahoma with the Choctaw Nation. As a lesson, it has become increasingly more valuable in my work as we develop local economies: we are the stewards of the land and its resources, the […]
Here is a picture of the ecosystem that is coming together to create inclusive wealth in Washington DC, or the part of it we are working on.
CategoriesUncategorizedSustainability requires that every community meet the needs of all its members (including plants and animals), present and future, without compromising the needs of other communities meeting the needs of their members, present and future. — Michael Shuman Is neighborhood economics at a tipping point? Consciousness certainly seems to be getting there. Think how many people read labels […]
Neighborhood Economics is bringing Povertystoplight.org to Washington DC. An innovation created and proven in multiple countries in the Global South as a way to measure poverty and to do something about it, Stoplight gathers detailed information at the household level that is used to create an action plan that helps lift people out of poverty. […]
