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. […]