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Watershed Fund is Thriving in Asheville

Kevin Jones We’ve raised a year of operating capital to launch The Watershed Fund, https://emsdcmarketplace.org/donations/watershed-fund/ which offers zero interest loans to local farmers serving our farm-to-table sector in Asheville. The connections and reciprocity within our food systems are already proving to be one of the surprising benefits. With the Watershed Fund, https://neighborhoodeconomics.org/wiki/index.php/Initial_design_of_the_Watershed_Fund what we are […]

Access to Capital Local Economic PolicyJuly 26, 2023July 26, 2023 By Kevin Jones

Dignity

Dignity is defined as being worthy of respect or honor. I often hear that everyone is deserving dignity at some level. It seems like a fairly understandable concept, but the practice of respecting people seems to be something that is pretty difficult to apply. It seems to be hardest to apply when it comes to […]

Faith + Finance Racial Wealth GapJuly 26, 2023July 27, 2023 By Leroy Barber

Neighborhood Economics Helps Grassroots Initiatives Move to Scale

Kevin Jones The Neighborhood Economics model of bringing a national focus to local issues was in high focus in Jackson, Mississippi at our April conference. I want to tell you about one of the most exciting things that came out of our conference. Because of white flight and the city’s problems, developers had stopped building […]

Local Economic PolicyJuly 13, 2023July 13, 2023 By Kevin Jones

Let Justice (and Capital) Roll Down in Jackson

Dave Kresta After spending the morning touring the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson on a recent Sunday morning, I was in an understandably somber mood. I was shocked out of my disgust and confusion when later that afternoon I attended the Working Together Jackson “Refounding Convention,” where over 500 energized and engaged community leaders […]

Access to Capital Local Economic PolicyJuly 13, 2023July 13, 2023 By Dave Kresta

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What is Juneteenth to White Folks?

Paula Garrett My 92-year-old mother grew up celebrating Juneteenth. She is a Texan, and she says that she learned about it in school. She was taught the history of it, the fact that it took two years for the news to get from Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation all the way to Galveston, TX. As a young […]

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 By Paula Garrett

Access to Capital Faith on Main Street Racial Wealth Gap

Preachers and Change

By Shonda Allen Economic, educational, and social institutions are not thought to be the traditional primary drivers of moral civility in the south. The wheelhouse that, arguably, should be driving moral/human civility is religious institutions – The CHURCH. But it is not. In fact, it has been the opposite. Ingrained in the DNA of the […]

February 16, 2023February 17, 2023 By admin

Access to Capital Faith on Main Street Racial Wealth Gap

Change is Gonna Come

By Paula Garrett “It’s Been A Long Time Coming. But I Know A Change Is Gonna Come” — Mississippian Sam Cooke Sam Cooke, the “King of Soul,” is known for his Chicago-style music, but he is actually from Clarksdale in the Mississippi Delta. He left Mississippi with his family as a child. He and hundreds […]

February 16, 2023February 16, 2023 By admin

Access to Capital Racial Wealth Gap

Repair of Redlining for Economic Justice

As 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 […]

January 18, 2023January 18, 2023 By Golladay

Economic Justice Marketplace Launches

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 […]

Access to Capital Church Assets in Transition Faith on Main Street Racial Wealth GapDecember 12, 2022December 12, 2022 By Kevin Jones

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Neighborhood Economics: Investing to Bridge the Racial Wealth Gap

Neighborhood 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 […]

November 16, 2022November 16, 2022 By Kevin Jones