Convening, Recruiting, and Connecting People Who Repair Local Economies
Leroy Barber, Executive Director I think my life may have been built around cooperative economic activity on just about every level. This way of life led to flourishing based on everyone having a voice and ownership. I don’t believe my mom would have been able to raise us alone without our community and a place […]
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 […]
I happened to be in a conversation this past week, and someone said this sentence: “He grew up on the wrong side of the tracks.” It has stuck with me. It has made me wonder what the wrong side of the tracks refers to and what are the conditions on this “wrong side?” Is it […]
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 […]
We have 18 months to get it done. We are in a once in 100 years opportunity to move the needle on economic justice over the next 18 months. That was the assessment of David Erickson, Senior Vice President and Head of Outreach and Education at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as he […]
In the last few weeks, as we have worked toward our event in San Antonio, I have explained our broad audience to several people. It occurred to me that my clarifications might be interesting to our readers, as well. To explain this, I need to include some history, first. At SOCAP: the Conference at the […]
I have had the incredible opportunity of many people investing in me and the work I do for close to 35 years now, and it has allowed me to dream, imagine, create, and start many projects and businesses over the years. It has also built confidence in me to keep risking and creating, even though […]
I’m excited about some of the innovative housing solutions that will be showcased at our conference in February. They go far beyond traditional government affordable housing, thanks to some innovative philanthropic funders who are targeting their catalytic investments at precise inflection points in the system to make real change. And what’s even more significant is […]